Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease caused by the dysfunction of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. This protein, which functions as a channel, is normally found on the surface of various secretory cells in different parts of the body such as the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and reproductive organs.
Specific mutations within the gene that encodes for this channel protein compromise the transport of chloride and water across cell membranes and affects the consistency of mucus that is produced by secretory cells. This leads to the accumulation of thick, sticky mucus in organs.
The mucus that accumulates in CF is rich in polysaccharides and proteins, presenting an ideal culture medium for the growth of different kinds of bacteria. The lungs are particularly vulnerable in patients with CF, making them susceptible to a wide range of acute and chronic bacterial infections.
There is a complex arsenal of antibiotics to combat these infections. Based on the route of administration these antibiotics can be classified into four categories: oral (taken by mouth), intravenous (injected into the bloodstream), intramuscular (injected into a muscle), or inhaled. The antibiotics can be sub-classified further based on their origin, the class of bacteria they target, and their mechanism of action. Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Burkholderia cepacia are some common bacterial species that can infect CF patients and are the target of the most commonly used antibiotics.
Since CF patients are susceptible to a wide variety of bacterial infections, it is important to identify the right combination of antibiotics that a patient may need early on to prevent the infection from spreading. Bacterial species can quickly become antibiotic resistant, making a certain class of antibiotics ineffective. That is why optimizing antibiotic doses, and why combinations of one or more antibiotics may be required. The type, dose, and frequency of antibiotics prescribed can vary from patient-to-patient and on clinical recommendations of the physician. Specific guidelines regarding antibiotic use are followed by clinicians to reach a decision regarding the details of antibiotic use.
Below are popular classes of antibiotics used to treat CF with common examples for each class, their prevailing routes of administration, and the pathogens they are directed against.
Penicillins usually administered orally, and in some cases intravenously, are frequently used to treat S. aureus infections. P. aeruginosa infections also can be treated with intravenous penicillin. Examples of penicillins include methicillin, oxacillin, nafcillin, carbenicillin, ticarcillin, piperacillin, mezlocillin, azlocillin, ticarcillin, clavulanic acid, and piperacillin-tazobactam.
Aminoglycosides, such as tobramycin, amikacin, and gentamicin, administered intravenously and more commonly by inhalation, are one of the most popular choices for treating P. aeruginosa infections. The use of inhalation is preferred because this way the antibiotic is delivered directly to the site of the infection and is more effective.
In addition to Penicillin, oral cephalosporins (e.g., cephalexin, cephalexin, cefdinir, cefprozil, and cefaclor) can be used to treat S. aureus and P. aeruginosa infections.
The emergence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is observed in many CF cases. These genetically distinct strains of S.aureus are notoriously difficult to treat because they lack many properties that usually make S.aureus sensitive to common antibiotics. However, many years of research has led to the identification of some options that can be tried. Vancomycin administered intravenously is the prevalent choice to treat MRSA.
Linezolid (brand name, Zyvox) is another option for treating MRSA infections. Linezolid belongs to a class of antibiotics called oxazolidinones and acts by targeting bacterial protein synthesis.
Although their use is now on the decline, sulfonamides are still used to treat some specific types of bacterial infections. For instance, P. aeruginosa infections can be treated by sulfisoxazole, a sulfonamide that can be administered alone or in combination with erythromycin. S. aureus infections can be treated with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and macrolides (e.g., erythromycin, clarithromycin, and azithromycin) usually given orally, although other routes of administration also may be used based on the physician's recommendations.
Tetracyclines (e.g., doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline), which also are used to treat S. aureus infections, can be administered by oral, intravenous, and intramuscular routes.
Macrolides and quinolones (ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin) administered orally or intravenously also have been used to treat P. aeruginosa infections. Some other antibiotics such as aztreonam and colistimethate often are administered by inhalation and intravenously to treat P. aeruginosa infections.
Most antibiotics start acting within 48 to 72 hours from the time of administration. However, it is imperative that patients complete the prescribed course of antibiotics to prevent the resurgence of antibiotic-resistant strains.


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ESSAY "MODERN COLLECTORS ARE DISCOVERING THAT A SET OF PRICELESS MEMORIES CHANGES THEIR PERSPECTIVES AND LASTS A LIFETIME" Few things are as noble as collecting. The Egyptian pharaohs were, arguably, the earliest great collectors, with thousands of papyrus scrolls in their library in the port city of Alexandria. Collecting in the modern era has its origins in the "wonder-rooms" and "curiosity cabinets"of the 16th century. In 1587, a German artist called Gabriel Kaltemarckt, working for King Christian I of Saxony, laid out what he saw as the three essential elements of every collection. One, sculptures and paintings. Two, "curious items from home or abroad." And three, "antlers, horns, claws, feathers and other things belonging to strange and curious animals." When considering collecting, Kaltemarckt noted that natural curiosity caused our distant ancestors to go and look over the next hill. His second observation was the thrill of the hunt. Thirdly, he recognised the satisfaction of gathering. Fourthly, he saw collecting as making a statement of human power over nature. There is also a fifth reason. Collections signified that their owner had the time and resources to indulge in an activity that had nothing to do with survival. Collecting, then, is a highly evolved method of satisfying some of our most basic urges. However, science has now proven that you are more likely to find happiness if you spend your time, money and focus on experiences, not goods. And so the logical question a modern collector should ask is: what sort of experiences should I have? You don't want to end up with a collection of mediocre memories, do you? Consider the impact that comes from attending a wedding in Marrakech, or flying into space with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic? As times have changed, so the collector's focus has shifted too. It is now easier than ever to hunt and gather objects. This is a problem for material objects, as a key ingredient to a collectible's value is rarity. It signifies the challenge and thrill involved in hunting and gathering. Its true meaning is missing from most dictionaries, but best explained by a concept called the "rarity principle": the bigger the difference between the number of people who have access to something and the number of people who know about it, the rarer and more valuable the thing is. Consequently, modern collectors hunt for the ultra rare and extraordinary. This is why around 700 people, that's around 0.00001% of the global population, have their names down to go into space with Virgin Galactic. When the first flights are ready, those first lucky passengers, who have already paid up to 0,000, will do something only a few hundred people have ever done before. First, they will take off and climb to an altitude of 47,000 feet (14.3km). And then it gets really exciting. The spaceship will turn sharply upwards and accelerate to Mach 1, 2 and finally Mach 3, taking its passengers 150,000 feet (45.7km) above the Earth, leaving them weightless, and giving them the rarest of experiences: 'that' view of our planet. While space is, as Captain Kirk used to say, the final frontier, it will still be there in years to come. Experiences that are fleeting, or soon to be gone, can have an even more powerful appeal. This is why an exclusive group of intrepid experience collectors has joined an expedition to see the RMS Titanic in her resting place before she disappears. A 2016 study discovered that "extremophile bacteria" could eat away what's left of the famous shipwreck within the next 15 or 20 years. In spring 2018, a small group of newly christened "Mission Specialists" will journey in a small titanium and carbon fibre submersible to the seabed where the ocean liner rests, around 12,500 feet (3.8km) below the surface of the Atlantic. The cost of the trip features a little added story and romance, and perhaps irony too. At 5,129, the cost it is about the same price, adjusting for inflation, that a first class passenger would have paid on the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. There are more similarly magical experiences becoming available to the dedicated collector of memories: a private plane trip across Asia with the hotelier Aman; a trip across the Antarctic by skiplane and "glacier proven", six-wheeled trucks organised by the Bluefish concierge company; or tour operator Black Tomato's 'Blink' adventures, which the company promises to only ever stage once. Many of these experiences come, by necessity, at a considerable price. However, our time on earth is equally full of valuable moments that money can't buy, from the simplicity of just relaxing on a warm sunny day and enjoying time with friends, to falling in love or having children and enjoying every single moment watching them as they grow up. There is a curious upside to this new way of collecting. Beyond the enjoyment of following one's curiosity, the thrill of the hunt, and the satisfaction of gathering some of the most exceptional and rare experiences available today, modern collectors are discovering something else: that the end result isn't just a trophy cabinet full of talking points that signify status, but a set of priceless memories that change their perspective and last a lifetime. James Wallman is a futurist and author. He runs the strategic advisory firm The Future Is Here, thefish.co He wrote the bestselling book Stuffocation (Penguin, 2015) 81
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Parking & Traffic Advisory – Graduations at the Ritchie Center!
The Ritchie Center has begun its annual graduation season and will host over 30 graduation ceremonies over the next several weeks, concluding with the University of Denver's undergraduate commencement on June 6. The list of all graduatoin ceremonies is avalilable online.
On graduation days, traffic around the Ritchie Center is expected to be heavy. If you will be traveling to the Ritchie Center during one of these events, we recommend giving yourself some extra travel time.
Monday, May 18 & Tuesday, May 19 evening programming around 4 – 5 p.m. will see extra traffic as graduations will be letting out.
Thursday, May 21 & Friday, May 22 all day as graduations run back-to-back throughout the day.
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Never heard of this Hanna Barbera TV Show, it looks quite childish, which is OK, minding the target audience. The game itself is quite good, very fluid and playable. I don't fancy much the graphics and overall presentation, although I must admit some levels are quite good. Which of the 5 levels is playable by a different character and with a different background color. One of the best Hi-Tec games.


THH "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana" Implementation Guidelines: Operational Guidelines for Implementation of Telanganaku Haritha Haaram, Telangana Haritha Patashala(Telangana Green Schools), Implementation of the initiative of the Government of Telangana by the Department of School Education, Telangana, Hyderabad. Director of School Education.
DSE Telangana - Rc.No.77/PS-2-1/2015; Dated: 21-08-2018 - Sub: School Education - Telangana Ku Haritha Haram - Observing "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana " in all the Educational Institutional in the State on 25.08.2018 - Instructions issued - Reg.
All the District Educational Officers in the State are aware that, the Government of Telangana introduced "Telanganaku Haritha Haram (THH)" a flag ship programme ofthe State Government envisages to increase the tree coverage in the State from the present 25.16% to 33 % ofthe total geographical area. The strategy is to achieve the above objective by undertaking massive plantation programme in every possible open space outside the forest and take up intensive rejuvenation and regeneration works coupled with soil and moisture conservation in the degraded forest areas throughout the State.
All the District Educational Officers in the State are further informed that the Hon'ble Dy.C.M. and Minister for Education has reviewed implementation of Telanganaku Haritha Haram in all Education Institutions and issued instructions to observe "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana Day" on 25.08.2018.
Institutions under all Managements on 25.08.2018.
2. The slogan for the Plantation in Education Institution shall be Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana.
On "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana Day", the following activities shall be taken up.
a. 09.30 AM to 10.30 AM - Arrange rallies and processions in the habitation / village / Gram Panchayat / Ward to create awareness among the general public to grow more plants.
¢. 11.30 AM to 12.30 PM - Awareness meeting/workshop on Haritha haram to ensure interaction ofthe dignitaries with the students followed by distribution of free seedlings to students for home stead plantation.
4. Green Brigade: Constitute a "Green Brigade" in all High Schools with students and teachers to protect the plants in every school. The Forest Department shall supply Scarfs and - Caps to the Green Brigade Team Members.
5. To give priority for "Block Plantations" wherever feasible.
6. Take up multi-row plantations in 4 to 5 rows all along the compound wall, if the "Block Plantation" is not feasible.
7. As far as possible, only tall plants (3 — 5 feet) are to be selected and they should be preferably drought resistant - flowering, fruit bearing and shady plants.
8. Each Student and Teacher shall adopt a plant and shall be made responsible for the survival of the plant in the school premises.
9. Coordinate with Grama Panchayathi Rakshana Committee and School Management Committees and involve them in plantation in all schools.
10. Ensure participation of Elected Representatives in large number in plantation programme on Haritha Patashala — Haritha Telangana Day (25.08.2018).
(b) Technical support - generation of estimates, identification of wage seekers -and payment of wages (Musters, M. Books) for maintaining of plants.
(c) Necessary training to HMs / Teachers by MDOs concerned on technical issues.
(d) To procure Tree Guards for protection of the plants in the Educational Institutions without compound walls.
In respect of Educational Institutions in Urban areas, the District Educational Officers shall coordinate with the Municipal authorities concerned for logistical & technical support for plantation in Educational Institutions.
All the students should be motivated to take plantation in their house premises and localities.
14. Wherever, more than 100 plants are being planted, the provision for watch and ward, watering, protection can be trapped under MNREGS and DEOs are requested to coordinate with DRDOs oftheir districts.
In the context of above, all the District Educational Officers in the State shall issue necessary instructions to all the Head Masters / Principals of all Educational Institutions in the State under all Managements to make arrangements well in advance and organize "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana Day" in all the Educational Institutions on 25.08.2018. The Forest Department shall supply Booklets, Pamphlets and Posters in this regard.
They are also requested to obtain school wise report through the MEOs and submit a detailed report on "Haritha Patashala - Haritha Telangana Day" by 27.08.2018 without fail. Further, they are instructed to initiate action against the institutions for deviation of instructions issued above and submit Action Taken Report.
Background: National Forest Policy envisages to have a minimum of 33& of the total geographical area under forest/ tree cover to maintain environmental stability and ecological balance which are vital for sustenance of all life forms, human, animal and plants. In Tealngan Stae, forest area is 25.16% of the total geographical area The State Government has initiated a flagship programme, "Telanganaku Haritha Haaram" for taking massive afforestation activities to increase the green over of the Telangana State to the desired level of 33% of the State's total geographical area from the existing 25.16% area. For next 3 years, starting from 2015, it has been decided to plant 230 Crore plants with 120 Crore plants in non-forests areas and 100 Crore trees in forest areas. Schools are amongst the thrust areas amongst the non-forest areas identified for undertaking plantation.
A detailed exercise has been undertaken by the State Government for identification of nurseries and the sites available for raising plantations. 3,300 number of nurseries have been identified in the State for raising approx. 41 Crore seedlings for catering to plantation in 2015. The nurseries will be raised by various agencies involved, Forest Department, DWMA, Agriculture, Horticulture, Tribal Welfare etc. As a part of the Telanganaku Haritha Haaram programme, the Department of School Education undertaking 1 Crore tree plantation in the schools/offices in 3 years during 2015, 2016 and 2017.
1. There are 43861 schools in the state including 14329 private schools.
3. Block plantation in vacant land inside 43861 schools, landscaping in the 29,785 schools are having compound walls and in 40,346 schools water is available.
Plantation/landscaping designing is to be undertaken scientifically so that the plantation undertaken results in creating the desired positive impacts of visual aesthetics, climate change adaptation, micro-climate control and pollution absorption. For this purpose, experts/consultants are to be engaged at Director of School Education level. For ensuring uniformity, an expert will be engaged to develop technical specification, undertake designing work on pilot basis for schools and offices in providing training/orientation to the Regional level Officers/District level Officers and consultants engaged by them.
be taken up students and staff and officers by the staff. The implementation plan will include plantation drives involving communities, schools, NGOs etc. during June. The drive will be launched in the month of June after reopening of schools.


Up for Growth Action has developed a new online tool, the Housing Market Affordability Indicators Dashboard, to provide those passionate about housing policy the data and research needed to better understand how key housing indicators are affecting metropolitan areas in the U.S. Developed in concert with ECONorthwest, the user-friendly dashboard aggregates statistics on increases in rent, home purchase prices and growth, land use regulation, cost burdening for both renters and homeowners, and how housing production compares to both household and job growth. The dashboard is searchable by metro areas across the U.S. and provides data from various sources, including the Census, Zillow, CoStar, and the Wharton School of Business, to provide a more complete picture of the unique housing challenges for each metro area.


In a July 31st notice, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warned restaurants and other foodservice establishments about the dangers of not properly cooking minced beef burgers.
According to FSAI, 3 percent of raw minced beef is known to be contaminated with a particularly harmful type of Escherichia coli (called Shiga toxin-producing E. coli) that can cause kidney failure. Children under 5 years of age and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to this type of E. coli.
To help restaurants and caterers to serve safer burgers and to keep consumers from contracting a foodborne illness, FSAI published an updated fact sheet entitled Advice for Caterers on Serving Burgers that are Safe to Eat. The fact sheet advises that minced beef burgers should be temperature tested prior to serving.
FSAI says that in order for minced beef burgers to be served safely, they must be sufficiently cooked in order to destroy harmful pathogens. The agency recommends cooking burgers to a minimum temperature of 75°C--measured at the thickest part of the burger--before serving. For those food businesses wishing to offer minced beef burgers prepared at lower temperatures, longer cooking times are required. The temperature and time combinations equivalent to 75°C have been recommended by the FSAI's Scientific Committee.
The FSAI's fact sheet was updated following the publication of the FSAI's Scientific Committee report, which outlines a trend to serve undercooked minced beef burgers and a corresponding risk of food poisoning. It highlights the risk of deviation from validated thorough cooking time and temperature combinations. It explains that if a food business was to consider an alternative approach, then it would have to first scientifically validate the new approach. Scientific validation is complex and requires specialized microbiological expertise in order to ensure a robust study is designed. People are at risk of getting sick if alternative cooking methods have not been validated. Failure to produce scientific validation to an environmental health officer could leave a food business open to legal action.
The FSAI understands that customers may request undercooked or rare minced meat burgers, but this does not exempt a food business's duty to sell safe food or protect it from potential prosecution. According to Dr. Byrne, even menu disclaimers do not exempt foodservice establishments from their obligation to follow food safety laws and serve only safely prepared food.
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January 5, 2023 January 12, 2023 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Book of REvelation
Revelation 8: The Seventh Seal
Then, when he broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for something like half an hour.
By Anonymous, England – [1], Public Domain
Recap of the Sixth Seal
It took two chapters to describe all that John saw and experienced at the breaking of the sixth seal.
Celestial Signs and Earthly Upheaval
Familiar Imagery, Fresh Meaning
The moment the seal was broken, the earth quaked, the sun turned black and moon blood read. Ever star fell to earth, then the sky disappeared. Human beings whether wealthy and powerful or in the troughs of society ran for the hills, begging to be hidden.
God's Seal of Protection
The 144,000
The four angels of destruction were held at bay until a fifth angel with the Lord's protective seal could mark the foreheads of all God's own.
The Mighty Multitude
Meaning of the Multitude
After these things I saw, and behold a vast multitude which no one was able to number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and languages, who were standing before the throne and before the Lamb, having been arrayed with white robes and palm branches in their hands.
And they are crying out in a great voice saying, "Salvation (is) to our God sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb."
Then all the angels (who) had been standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne upon their faces and gave homage to God
saying, "Amen—the blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the might (be) to our God into the ages of the ages, amen."
The sky cascaded with flaming orbs shooting across the heavens, the very atmosphere was rolled up like a scroll while the entire planet quaked and groaned. Everyone on earth cried out, either for rescue or for shelter from the Lord's mighty wrath. After God's own were sealed against the cataclysm, John noticed a myriad throng of white-robed worshippers praising God. They were from every possible people group, yet they sang with one voice.
Throughout John's description there is a sense of immensity, of sensory overload, hyperbole pushed to the Nth degree. Just reading his account is exhausting. After such a riotous kaleidoscope of colors, sounds, movement, and power, the breaking of the seventh seal would have been deafening in its simplicity.
By John Martin, 1789–1854, British – Public Domain
It is one of the more mysterious and intriguing verses in John's account.
Have you ever been in a gathering where someone asks for a moment of silence? Perhaps it is in memory of someone, or in honor of an event. After a while, maybe someone coughs nervously and another shifts in their chair. Cough drop wrappers rustle, a small child cries, there is the sound of a chair leg scraping or a keys jingling. Time seems to take on a sense of eons the longer the "moment" lasts.
Now imagine what it was like for John when the four living creatures grew still, the mighty multitude fell quiet, and all the angelic host in the heavenly realms hushed. Imagine this moment of silence spreading from the throne of God throughout heaven's Holy of Holies, so that even as John watched all movement and sound ceased. Perhaps John felt the supernatural gravity of such stillness.
Theologians have ever since pondered the meaning of this settled silence.
By anonymous Russian Old Believer – Public Domain
Historicist
Scholars who see the historical fulfillment of John's Revelation regard this pause as a seventy-year period between Constantine's victory in 324 CE and the invasion of the Holy Roman Empire in 395 CE. During this interim, it is viewed, the 144,000 were sealed unto God.
Acting something like the eye of a storm, silence came after the horrific persecution of Christians and before the sounding of the seven terrible trumpets to come in chapters eight through eleven. One commentator suggests this lull represents a time of peace for Christians who had previously cried out to God for rescue during the sixth seal, and would cry out afresh during the trumpet tribulations. Or perhaps this was a time of silent anticipation of what the Lord was about to do, in the same way the prophet Zechariah had spoken of.
Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
Zechariah 2:13 (NRSV)
By Unknown source, Public Domain
Preterist
Commentators who look to the sacking of Jerusalem in 70 CE note the calming of the martyrs who were languishing beneath the altar in heaven. The martyrs had been revealed at the breaking of the fifth seal, as John heard them cry out in a oud voice,
"Until how long, Lord, the Holy and Trustworthy, True One, are you not judging and avenging our blood out of the ones living upon the earth?"
But rather than give them a timeframe, long white robes were given instead. They were told to rest a while, to be at peace, because many more brothers and sisters in the Lord would be joining them before all would be fulfilled.
But now the time had come. Half an hour would symbolize the martyrs witnessing God's avenging of their lives in the destruction of Herod's temple, the final act of the Lord's judgment.
Alternatively, because it is thought the priest's daily tending to the incense altar in the Holy Place would have taken about thirty minutes, perhaps this moment of quiet represented all of heaven observing this ceremony. Just a few verses later in chapter eight, an angel would be presenting the incense of godly prayers, and traditionally on earth, according to Luke's Gospel, attendant worshippers were to pray in silence.
Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.
…Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering at his delay in the sanctuary.
Luke 1:10, 21 (NRSV)
However, these would be prayers of anguish rising up to the Lord in distress as Roman persecution of Christians commenced.
By Facundus, pour Ferdinand Ier de Castille et Leon et la reine Sancha – Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Public Domain
Other interpreters see this heavenly calm as a future event yet to be fulfilled—it is that moment heavy-laden with expectancy as the next movement of God is about to unfold. Think of the audience when the maestro lifts his baton, or onlookers as the diver leaps from the springboard, or the courtroom as the jury is about to disclose their judgment. But there is also a sense of foreboding and dread in this breathless quiescence, for it is the Wrath of God is poised mid-air.
Even though we might think of heaven as outside the dominion of time, being the home of eternal and infinite God, theologians with this view accept the thirty-minute interval John described as literal.
By Московская старообрядческая книгопечатня 1909 г., с древлеписьменной рукописи первой половины XVII в. – Public Domain
Conversely, the broader spiritual perspective understands this verse as a short time in which all heaven worships God in silent awe. The Lord's redemptive purpose is about to be made complete—the restoration of all creation, set into motion by the resurrection of Christ, will now be fully accomplished.
Perhaps an analogy can be drawn from the Israelites' conquest of Jericho. As the priests hoisted the Ark of the Covenant to their shoulders, as shofars were raised to priestly lips, and rank upon rank of the people of God arrayed themselves in procession behind them, watchers from the towers of Jericho looked on in noiseless apprehension.
Then the first blasts of the shofar blew, the people marched, and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down.
By Albrecht Dürer – Houghton Library, Public Domain
The four perspectives taken from Revelation: Four Views A Parallel Commentary, edited by Steve Gregg
Tagged Revelation, revelation 8, revelation 8:1, silence in heaven, the seventh seal
"Killing Christians"
Revelation: The Second Set of Sevens


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Sophie comes in under two hours in Great North Run
Upper Sixth pupil Sophie Auster's time of 1 hour 50 minutes in the Great North Run has so inspired her that she is determined to better her performance next year. Sophie was one of 200 people running for the Prostate Cancer Charity and hopes to raise £250 in total.
"It was a fantastic experience," says Sophie. "Beforehand, I was so certain that it would be a one-off because I didn't think I could put in the training again and I am probably at the peak of my fitness now.
"However, after I'd completed the race, I was desperate to have the experience again mainly because I really want to improve my time."
Sophie did find the sheer enormity of the crowd a problem and lost a lot of time dodging people and not being able to find a good pace.
"On the positive side, though," she says, "I was pleased to have been among the main thrust of the crowd because I was right in the centre of the buzzing excitement of the race. It was such a great feeling to be part of a huge fund-raising venture where everyone was running for their own personal cause.
"The true quality of the experience was enhanced by the fact that I was running with my sister. We began together, running within a metre of Kelly Holmes at the start line, and then separated. We were united at the end at our charity tent where we joined our fellow runners to share our experiences and munch on the free chocolate! Thankfully, the weather was perfect for running and the whole day was great apart from the fact that it inevitably involved a lot of queueing!"
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On December 19, 2018, the Palm Springs City Council adopted "Palm Springs District Map" as the official district boundaries map and adopted an ordinance enacting district elections.
On April 19, 2018, the Palm Springs City Council adopted Resolution No. 24406 declaring its intent to transition to district-based elections. Pursuant to Elections Code Section 10010 and an agreement reached with the proponent, the City will conduct a series of Public Hearings and community engagement forums over the next 6 months to receive community input on the composition of proposed electoral districts for City Council seats. It is of upmost importance that Palm Springs residents and stakeholders participate and provide feedback during the upcoming meetings. It is the City's desire to ensure that the proposed districts reflect prevalent communities of interest and that the citizenry be engaged in this urgent matter.
Below is more information regarding the transition from at-large to district-based elections. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Anthony Mejia, City Clerk, at (760) 323-8206 or cityclerk@palmspringsca.gov.
How Can I View Submitted Draft Maps?
You may view the maps prepared by the City's demographer and those submitted by community members by clicking here. You may also view draft maps via the interactive view map supplement. Simply toggle on and off the various maps that have been submitted and/or overlay them in comparison to the organized neighborhood map. Please contact the City Clerk's Office if you have any questions.
Maximize the goals of the CVRA, including civil rights, equality, and inclusion.
Prioritize the creation of majority/minority districts.
To the extent practical, keep organized neighborhoods intact.
Evaluate our current structure of government and demographics, compare with and learn from other comparable cities and recommend the structure of government that best achieves the goals of the CVRA and the long-term needs of our city.
Encourage and work through communication platforms to obtain participation from as many residents and stakeholders as possible in the process.
The City Council Ad Hoc Subcommittee (Councilmembers Kors and Middleton) established a Community Working Group for the purpose of researching and providing recommendations on a variety of issues related to the California Voting Rights Act and the districting process. These members have offered to make themselves available to community of Palm Springs if you have questions and want another community member's perspective. Please note that the views and opinions of these members do not necessarily reflect the position of the City and/or City Council.


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Q: Nested attributes with has_many through association creating object twice I have Rails API application with many to many relationship between users and projects though project_memberships table.
Models:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :project_memberships, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :projects, -> { uniq }, through: :project_memberships

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :project_memberships, allow_destroy: true
end

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :project_memberships, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :users, -> { uniq }, through: :project_memberships
end

class ProjectMembership < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :project

  validates :user, presence: true
  validates :project, presence: true
end

Controller:
class UsersController < ApplicationController
  expose(:user, attributes: :user_params)

  respond_to :json

  # removed unrelated actions

  def update
    user.update user_params
    respond_with user
  end

  private

  def user_params
    params.require(:user).permit(
      :first_name, :last_name,
      project_memberships_attributes:
        [:id, :project_id, :membership_starts_at, :_destroy]
    )
  end
end

The problem is that when I send a PUT request to http://localhost:3000/users/1 with the following json:
{"user":{"project_memberships_attributes":[{"project_id": 1}]}

user.update user_params creates 2 ProjectMembership records with the same user_id and project_id.
  SQL (0.3ms)  INSERT INTO "project_memberships" ("project_id", "user_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4) RETURNING "id"  [["project_id", 1], ["user_id", 1], ["created_at", "2016-03-18 18:00:07.670012"], ["updated_at", "2016-03-18 18:00:07.670012"]]
  SQL (0.2ms)  INSERT INTO "project_memberships" ("project_id", "user_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4) RETURNING "id"  [["project_id", 1], ["user_id", 1], ["created_at", "2016-03-18 18:00:07.671644"], ["updated_at", "2016-03-18 18:00:07.671644"]]
  (1.0ms)  COMMIT

Btw destroying and updating already existing records by specifying id in nested attributes works correctly.

A: The first step you need to take is to ensure uniqueness on the database level:
class AddUniquenessConstraintToProjectMemberships < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    # There can be only one!
    add_index :project_memberships, [:user, :project], unique: true
  end
end

This avoids race conditions that would occur if we relied on ActiveRecord alone.

From Thoughtbot: The Perils of Uniqueness Validations.
You then want to add an application level validation to avoid the ugly DB driver exceptions that occur if you violate the constraint:
class ProjectMembership < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :project
  validates :user, presence: true
  validates :project, presence: true
  validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, scope: :project_id
end

You can then remove the -> { uniq } lambda on your associations as you have taken the proper steps to ensure uniqueness.
The rest of your issues are due to a misunderstanding of how accepts_nested_attributes_for works:

For each hash that does not have an id key a new record will be
  instantiated, unless the hash also contains a _destroy key that
  evaluates to true.

So {"user":{"project_memberships_attributes":[{"project_id": 1}]} will always create a new record if you do not have proper uniqueness validations.

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Does the ri ch man like pure women? Will rich men like money worship women? What kinds of women will rich men like? In fact, rich men must be surrounded by lots of women. Their lover searching never stops. To be a rich man's girl, you must have a strong psychological quality, to endure loneliness, to withstand the temptation. So what kinds of women will rich men like?
People always feel rich men love more beautiful woman. But in fact, rich guys are not only concerned in the face but also the connotation. They like women with moderate appearance, not too beautiful. The most important thing is the inside of the women.
In fact, rich men are still very focused on educational background. People always think that rich men are living exaggerated luxury life like TV shows. However, the fact is, the wealthier they are, the more time they will spend on the education of their child. When you are playing games or watching TV, they have been learning piano and other skills, and travel around the world to see growth. Therefore, their education requirements for their spouses will not be too low.
Rich men are not necessarily interested in pure girls. It's ok that you have love histories. And they do not care whether you are a virgin. But they do not like girls that have too many love histories and promiscuity. I believe that this is not only the rich men's standard; even the normal boys are the same.
Rich people don't like women who are too attached to themselves. And if you're independent enough to have your own ideas, it will give you a big bonus, compared to appearances. The rich men care more about what you have inside. And whether they are happy with you, and whether you can get along well with each other.
Girls like to buy and buy, so the rich men are not harsh on shopping. But they will feel disgusted if you are too extravagant or like to compare. Rich people especially pay attention to their privacy, and they know how to reveal wealth. So a lot of people are wondering if the rich men like money worship women. We should say that if you have the ability to make money, they can endure your buying. But if you just love spending money, it will only make them feel you are too material, and you are not the standard of good partner in their hearts.
Filial piety is important in the idea of wealthy families. Don't always think rich people are actually enjoying the luxury life. You don't know how many benefits they will get during the dinner. And they know that everything they have is from hard work. So if you happen to share the same character and share the common language with a rich man, your chances of a rich men dating will increase greatly.


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Wagner History
Wagner News
Winter 2018–19
'Poet, Rattlesnake Hunter, World Traveler and Grave Digger'
Remembering Edgar Krauch, Class of 1918
We Found Our Voice
A Family Built Around Wagner
Edgar Krauch's senior picture in the 1918 Wagner College yearbook.
We recently celebrated the centennial of the original Wagner College seal. I became curious about its designer, Edgar Krauch, who created it while he was a student at the College, in 1916. My colleague Lee Manchester located a 1963 profile of Krauch in an obscure local newspaper. Entitled "A Man of Many Talents," the article includes a photo of Krauch dressed in a suit and tie, pointing to a gravestone lying on the ground in an overgrown cemetery. I was hooked when I read the photo caption that described Krauch as a "poet, rattlesnake hunter, world traveler and grave digger."
Krauch, it strikes me, was the definition of a liberal arts graduate, with a distinctively Wagnerian flair.
His full name was Edgar Wilhelm Luther Krauch. He was born in 1897 and died in 1979. His father, Rev. Oscar Krauch, was a German immigrant, a Lutheran pastor, and also a Wagner College alumnus, class of 1892. Rev. Krauch served several congregations in and around Albany and Buffalo, New York, and in San Antonio, Texas. Edgar grew up bilingual, English and German, and he used his German throughout his life.
Edgar "Eggs" Krauch in basketball uniform, from the 1918 yearbook.
At Wagner College, Krauch not only drew up the first seal, but he also helped create the first yearbook. From that groundbreaking publication (entitled The Wagnerian), we learn a few fun facts about young Edgar: He was on the basketball team, was a "camera fiend," had the "gift of gab," and was known by the nickname "Eggs."
"This term was probably derived from the word 'legs,'" the yearbook says. "He has them — any length! His favorite mode of exercise is a fantastic 'snake' dance of his own invention." Perhaps that was an omen of his rattlesnake-hunting days to come.
Edgar did not follow his father's footsteps into the ministry, despite attending seminary after Wagner (which was then a pre-seminary). Instead, he became the owner of the Amherst Memorial Company in Williamsville, New York, provider of gravestones and monuments. Throughout his life, he was devoted to learning, to the church, to history, and to diversity.
Edgar Krauch's portrait in his 1933 history of St. John's Church, Buffalo.
In 1933, he wrote a history of St. John's Church in Buffalo, where his father served as the pastor from 1915 to 1928. Edgar himself served as the secretary of the church council and of the congregation. He was also "the loyal teacher of our growing Women's Bible Class," wrote Pastor Martin J. Hoeppner in the introduction. Krauch emphasized women's rights and inclusion in the history as well.
To Krauch, church history was no dry recitation of facts. "Therein lies Christian faith and trust, philosophy, psychology, biography, romance and adventure," he wrote in his foreword. "Modern fiction cannot surpass the tales that will be told in these pages." In other words, he approached this work with the same enthusiasm he devoted to everything else he did, whether it was rattlesnake hunting or antique collecting.
Edgar Krauch was featured in the 'Frontier Herald' newspaper on January 10, 1963.
The 1963 feature story, which ran in the Frontier Herald of Blasdell, New York, is no simple resume. Instead, the unnamed author rambles through a thicket of topics, anecdotes, and facts conveyed by his subject. These range from how to knife-hunt woodchucks (and, moreover, how to cook them) to what amazing items Krauch has found while moving cemeteries. The latter included a three-quarter carat diamond ring and the skeleton of a two-headed infant.
Above all, it is Krauch's interest in all aspects of the world and respect for people past and present that shines through.
"It is seldom that a person meets an exciting personality like Edgar Krauch," the article says. "One can listen to him for hours with interest and bewilderment. He is an authority on subjects such as antiques, poetry, classics, hunting, fishing, traveling, foods, and above all he is a humorist at heart."
Krauch's spirit lives on in the Wagner College of today, a place where exploration of knowledge and service to humanity thrive. I hope all alumni take the time to look at the seal on their diplomas, to reflect on what it means, and to be inspired by the man who created it.
— Laura Barlament, Editor, Wagner Magazine
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'The Most Important Year of My Life'
Jul 31, 2019 An Austrian author brings Wagner College, circa 1967, back to vivid life in a new book.
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Religion professor retires after half a century on Grymes Hill.
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Q: textblob .detect_language() function not working So I have been trying out coding and am currently finding some language detection packages and found out about textblob, but I am having some sort of proble.
This is my code:
# - *- coding: utf- 8 - *-
from textblob import TextBlob

blob = TextBlob("Comment vas-tu?")

print(blob.detect_language())

print(blob.translate(to='es'))
print(blob.translate(to='en'))
print(blob.translate(to='zh'))

and this error shows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\*****\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\main.py", line 6, in <module>
    print(blob.detect_language())
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\textblob\blob.py", line 568, in detect_language
    return self.translator.detect(self.raw)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\textblob\translate.py", line 72, in detect
    response = self._request(url, host=host, type_=type_, data=data)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\textblob\translate.py", line 92, in _request
    resp = request.urlopen(req)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 214, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 523, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 632, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 561, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Process finished with exit code 1

I am still a little bit of a beginner in programming... Can I ask what I can do to solve this?

A: You can make it working by doing some changes in your translate.py file as mentioned below:
Original:
url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=webapp&dt=bd&dt=ex&dt=ld&dt=md&dt=qca&dt=rw&dt=rm&dt=ss&dt=t&dt=at&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&otf=2&ssel=0&tsel=0&kc=1"

Change above code to:
url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=te&format=html&dt=bd&dt=ex&dt=ld&dt=md&dt=qca&dt=rw&dt=rm&dt=ss&dt=t&dt=at&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&otf=2&ssel=0&tsel=0&kc=1"

For further details visit this link: "HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found" while using translation function in TextBlob

A: Since you only need to do language detection, I see that langdetect library is a good fit:
https://pypi.org/project/langdetect/
Here is a demo on how to use it:
>>> from langdetect import detect
>>> detect('هيا بنا نلعب')
'ar'
>>>


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Unsettling George Will, Part II
by Gregg Mumm July 5, 2022 July 5, 2022
This One View submission is sympathetically prompted by a column in Wednesday Journal last March by Ken Trainor titled, "George Will and his comfort zone."
Under no illusion that the conservative political critic, Mr. Will (Ivy League PhD in Political Science), can be unsettled (certainly not by me), the effort is nevertheless potentially useful and clarifying. Besides constraining democracy in perverse ways, conservatives also revel in sowing ideological confusion.
George Will has been wrong on major public policy issues during his lifetime, including (along with the onetime overt racist, William F. Buckley Jr.) the righteousness of the Civil Rights Movement (which Will has acknowledged), global warming, the free market's capacity to deliver health care, and the merits of the U.S. automobile industry bailout during the Obama administration. (Will was, however, a stern critic of Mitch McConnell's handling of the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland and he has been a true never-Trumper from the outset; referring, appropriately, to the supporters of that buffoonish gangster as "Vichy Republicans.")
But the target of this "One View" submission is Will's conservatism itself, as a defensible ideology. The argument is that conservatism is inferior to liberalism because it is less harmonious with balanced human nature.
But first, "liberalism" is understood here from the standpoint of favoring a more equitable distribution of this country's material riches among its citizens and residents as best illustrated by (1) the welfare state agendas of presidents FDR and LBJ, and (2) the theoretical grounding offered by John Rawls in his A Theory of Justice. (This contemporary liberalism contrasts with classic European "liberalism" and its emphasis on inviolate private property rights as the cornerstone of "freedom.")
Liberalism seeks greater equality. Not the pure material equality under socialism, but a level of substantially greater equality that acknowledges this is not the land of equal opportunity, that individuals are not the true masters of their own destiny ("luck" is the primary variable, weakening the smugly asserted private property-right claim), and that the rich, being the greater benefactors, owe, through taxes, far more than the disposessed for the maintenance of our social arrangements.
In contrast, conservatism seeks maximum inequality that is the inevitable product of unrestrained, unmitigated capitalism; hence, conservatism's natural affinity with racism and the other unprovoked bigotries that engender further inequality and a temptation toward anti-American authoritarianism that is inherently hostile to the central ethos of this country: that we are "all … equal …endowed … with … unalienable Rights" (Declaration of Independence) "secure[d]" by our federal government (U.S. Constitution).
An ideology that is most in harmony with balanced human nature is, self-evidently, the theoretical design most efficacious.
Starting with the identification of the features of human nature that are politically salient, apart from fear of death, there are the competing impulses of "self-regard" (hyper-individualism) and "other-regard" (empathy).
Drawing bright lines, the agenda of liberalism balances "self-regard" with "other-regard," recognizing both tendencies in the balanced personality. In contrast, socialism discards "self-regard" entirely (humans as angels). Conservatism discards "other-regard" (humans as reptilian primates).
Now, as it turns out, the matching of these ideological differences with personality traits is perfectly captured in George Will's useful three-word formulation of what liberals seek: "capitalism without casualties." From that, one can further observe that the socialist strikes "capitalism" from the formula (humans are angelically selfless), while conservatives strike "without casualties" (humans are exclusively selfish). In this way liberals stand against the "right" and the true "left." Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, is a centrist (so screw you, Karl Rove and Frank Luntz).
While Will's three-word description is a useful wide angle view of our political divisions, it doesn't cover everything (e.g., abortion, gun rights, and foreign policy). But it addresses the primary one that has existed throughout this country's history, in its darkest and noblest moments. George Will is to be commended for intellectual coherence, but condemned for political misjudgment.
Gregg Mumm is an Oak Park resident.


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9 most divisive movies that pitted critics against fans
Suicide Squad, Avatar, Twilight and all the other movies that get as much love as they do hate
By Thomas Ling
Friday, 16th September 2016 at 2:35 pm
Before we begin, we have a warning for you: don't read this if you're in a crowd. The films we're going to talk about here could cause absolute anarchy. If they catch wind of what you're reading, half of them will side with the critics who tear these films apart – while the other side will just tear the critics apart.
Why? Because these are the movies people just can't agree on; the ones thousands hated and thousands more loved. There is no in between.
Consider this your final warning.
1. Suicide Squad (2016)
The people that hated it really hated it. And the people that loved it joined a 22,000-strong petition to shut down Rotten Tomatoes, the internet's leading critic aggregator, to protest against Suicide Squad's poor reviews (despite the site being previously owned by Warner Bros, who produced the film. And the fact that the site itself doesn't actually review movies).
But Rotten Tomatoes remains online. And the "worst heroes ever" still rank as 'rotten' on the Tomatometer, thanks to a team of critics arguing, as Anthony Lane from The New Yorker did, that "to say that the movie loses the plot would not be strictly accurate, for that would imply that there was a plot to lose." Ouch.
However, the petition could gain traction if critics continue to scorn the DC Extended Universe, bearing in mind they'll see eight of its films before the end of the decade, starting with Wonder Women in 2017. It's all on you, Diana Prince.
2. Seven Pounds (2008)
What could possibly be divisive about a film where the former Fresh Prince of Bel Air harvests his own organs to atone for killing six strangers and his fiancée? A jellyfish. Obviously.
Let us explain. Much of the argument swimming around this film stems from its finale where – hilarious spoiler warning – Will Smith's character shares a bath with a deadly poisonous jellyfish, killing himself in order to donate his heart. However, as critics pointed out, the jellyfish would fill his heart with several neurotoxins, making his ticker unusable for a transplant. Ah.
Did this plothole of plotholes spoil the film? No, said 75% of the Rotten Tomatoes audience. Yes, said 73% of Rotten Tomatoes' film critics.
Not since Finding Nemo have jellyfish caused so much panic to moviegoers worldwide.
3. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
It's your classic Hollywood popcorn film: Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays Caden Cotard, a theatre director who buys a warehouse and hires a group of actors to continually capture the pain of everyday life.
The cast (which includes an actor to play Cotard himself) performs within a life-size replica of New York City that's inside a warehouse in the actual aforementioned city, while all the time Cotard battles with a mysterious disease that causes his body (and the body of the guy playing him) to shut down, much to the delight of a meddling therapist (appearing inside and outside of the warehouse within a warehouse within a city) who's continually trying to flog her debut book.
Unbelievably, audiences found that confusing. So confusing, that they couldn't work out if it was any good or not. For example, revered critic Roger Ebert called it his favourite film of the noughties, but American site Observer called it "The worst film ever".
Even The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw couldn't decide in his own review if the meta-mega movie was "a masterpiece or a massively dysfunctional act of self-indulgence".
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Danville: Family's new pet, a rescued baby cow, thinks it's one of the dogs
By Bay Area News Group |
November 6, 2015 at 5:22 a.m.
DANVILLE — An 8-week old calf adopted by a Danville family has become so comfortable with his new home that he may think he's one of the dogs.
The calf, named Goliath, tags along with the family dogs in their daily activities around the ranch in Danville, Calif., Hubbs told ABC News.
"He was raised with our three dogs, and he's around them every day," she told the station.
It all started when the family rescued Goliath from a dairy farm, Hubbs said. One of her dogs, a Great Dane named Leonidas, took a liking to the sickly calf immediately, ABC News reported.
"He would lick the little cow on the face and try to nudge him to stand up," she said. "He would lay down with the sick, little cow for hours just to keep him company."
Hubbs is convinced that Goliath, now healthy, thinks he's one of the dogs.
Check out more photos on Goliath's Twitter page. (Yes, a cow has a Twitter account.)
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Q: Is my derivation of the derivative of a product of the Heaviside function and a function correct? (A follow-up question) That's a follow-up question to the accepted answer to this post.
After some thinking, I ended up deriving the derivative differently. I'm wondering if the dear Math stack exchange community can tell me whether it is wrong or not please.
Here goes my derivation.
Assume we have some continuous function $f(x)$ defined on the interval $[0, \infty)$ and it doesn't go to infinity when $x$ goes to infinity.
I multiply it by the Heaviside function to expand it to the entire $x$ axis: $f(x)H(x)$. Here, $H(x)$ is equal to $1$ at $x=0$.
I want to differentiate that product.
The post that I cited states that I can't do that and that I have to convert the product to a distribution first. However, the post doesn't specify how one does the conversion to preserve the physical meaning of the product $f(x)H(x)$.
I have come up with the following conversion procedure. I'm going to mollify the product: $(f(x)H(x))*\phi(x)$. Here, $\phi(x)$ is the mollifier and $*$ stands for convolution.
Convolution can be considered as a distribution (I read that in Wikipedia).
Now we have the distribution $\langle(f(x)H(x)), \phi \rangle$ that approximates the product $f(x)H(x)$ preserving its physical meaning and we can differentiate it:
$$\langle(f(x)H(x))', \phi \rangle = \int_{-\infty}^\infty (f(x)H(x))' \phi(x)dx$$
Here:

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*$H(x)=0$ for $x \in (-\infty, 0)$, therefore, I can change the integration limit to $[0,   \infty)$.

*$H(x)=1=const$ for $x \in [0, \infty)$, therefore, $(f(x)H(x))'=H(x)f(x)'$ for $x \in [0, \infty)$.
With that in mind we have the following:
$$\langle(f(x)H(x))', \phi \rangle = \int_{-\infty}^\infty (f(x)H(x))' \phi(x)dx = \int_0^\infty f(x)' \ 1 \ \phi(x)dx = \int_0^\infty f(x)' \phi(x)dx = (f(x=0)' \phi(x=0)) = \langle \delta, (f(x)'\phi(x) \rangle = \int_{-\infty}^\infty \delta(x) f(x)' \phi(x)dx = \int_{-\infty}^\infty (f(x)' \delta(x)) \phi(x)dx = \langle(f(x)' \delta), \phi \rangle$$
I'm wondering if this derivation is correct.
If positive, then I have the follow up questions.

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*Why my result is not the same as in the post that I cited?

*How can the function $f(x)$ defined on the interval $x \in [0, \infty)$ be under the integral with the integration limits $(-\infty, \infty)$?

*What if the function $f(x)$ were defined on the interval $x \in (0, \infty)$? How would it affect the derivation?

A: Your error
In your second step, $\int_{-\infty}^\infty (f(x)H(x))' \phi(x)dx = \int_0^\infty f(x)' \ 1 \ \phi(x)dx,$ you are not using the definition of distributional derivative. Remember that the definition is $\langle u', \phi \rangle := -\langle u, \phi' \rangle.$ Do not assume that you can just take the derivative of a function wherever the derivative is defined and use that. If it were that simple you would have $H'=0$ but the correct is $H'=\delta.$
Correct derivation
Let $f \in C^\infty([0, \infty)),$ meaning that $f \in C^\infty((0, \infty))$ and that the limits of all derivatives exist at $0.$ Let $f$ define a distribution by $\phi \mapsto \int_0^\infty f(x) \, \phi(x) \, dx$ for $\phi \in C^\infty_c(\mathbb R).$ Let $f'$ denote the classical derivative of $f$ defined on $(0, \infty).$ Then the distributional derivative of $f,$ denoted by $Df$ is given by
$$
\langle Df, \phi \rangle
= -\langle f, \phi' \rangle
= -\int_0^\infty f(x) \, \phi'(x) \, dx
= -\left[ f(x) \, \phi(x) \right]_0^\infty + \int_0^\infty f'(x) \, \phi(x) \, dx
= f(0) \, \phi(0) + \langle f', \phi \rangle
= \langle f(0)\delta, \phi \rangle + \langle f', \phi \rangle
= \langle f' + f(0)\delta, \phi \rangle,
$$
i.e. $Df = f' + f(0)\delta.$

A: I found an error in my derivation: $$\int_0^{\infty} f(x)' \phi(x) dx \neq (f(x=0)'\phi(x=0))$$
With that in mind, my question doesn't bring any good to Math stack exchange. But md2perpe's answer and comments are very useful to mind which makes me uncertain about deleting my question.
I'll leave it for now.
If the moderators decide to delete it, I'll delete it.