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Lovell FHCC staff steps up to create formidable COVID-19 team
Sheeba Varughese (left), IV room manager at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, and Navy Hospital Corpsman First Class Robert Viloria set up for administration of the COVID-19 vaccine at the McHenry (Illinois) Community Based Outpatient Clinic. (Photo by: Navy Seaman Apprentice Minh-Thy Chu, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health)
3/30/2021 By: Navy Seaman Apprentice Minh-Thy Chu, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center
Coronavirus & the MHS Response | COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts | Coronavirus and the COVID-19 Vaccine
The COVID-19 vaccination effort at the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center has brought out the best in staff, many who volunteered to create a formidable team dedicated to one thing - getting shots in the arms of every staff member and as many of the FHCC's veteran, military, and military dependent patients as possible.
From the late December day the first Moderna vaccines were delivered with fanfare to the North Chicago, Illinois facility, it became apparent that what would typically be done through the Immunizations Clinic was too big of an operation for the limited clinical staff.
"We knew we had to stand up a group of people to basically volunteer to be vaccinators," said FHCC Assistant Director of Plans and Operations Kathleen Kennedy.
FHCC Gastroenterology Nurse Manager April Shaw was given the task of managing staff volunteers who would be running the staff vaccination clinic. This team dedicated six weeks to COVID-19 vaccinations for staff in the Family Practice Clinic. By the end of the seventh week, 73% of staff was vaccinated, including Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense employees.
Chief of Pharmacy, Laurie Noschese, and Regional Immunizations Program Manager, Randy Tolbert, were tasked to deploy staff vaccines. They got support from the team of volunteers including nurses, pharmacy employees, and medical support assistants.
At first, some Navy staff at Lovell FHCC were unable to access the online appointment booking tool developed at another VA facility for staff to schedule their vaccinations. Once the clinic had enough doses on hand, walk-in appointments were opened for all staff, which mitigated the issue.
As the clinic became busier, more administrative staff volunteered to manage the flow of the clinic, checking people in, handing out paperwork, and scheduling second dose appointments. This allowed clinical staff to focus on their medical roles – vaccinating and observing those who had received the vaccine. Volunteers also helped schedule appointments over the phone. According to Kennedy, there was never a shortage of volunteers to help the vaccination effort.
"COVID-19 operations have the ability to unify everyone as a team," she said. "It's something we all live through at work and at home. People really understand the significance of what they're doing."
At one point during staff vaccinations, a roving team of vaccinators and other volunteers brought the COVID-19 vaccine to Lovell FHCC Branch Clinics at Recruit Training Command and Naval Station Great Lakes, allowing staff members the convenience of getting vaccinated near their work sites, rather than at the main hospital. The ability to offer this option displayed the flexibility of the vaccination team, Kennedy added.
Since the vaccine was made available to FHCC Community Living Center residents first and then to outpatients in mid-January, the team has made similar trips to vaccinate staff and patients at Lovell FHCC's Community Based Outpatient Clinics, which don't have the capacity to operate their own COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
The start of outpatient vaccinations drastically increased the clinic's operations, from an average of 100 daily immunizations to about 250 a day. With this change, the clinic began relying more on administrative volunteers to keep the area organized and facility management staff to ensure the area was safe.
Active duty corpsmen assigned to Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command Great Lakes were another group of Lovell FHCC employees who volunteered to man the greatly expanded vaccination effort. During the mass push of Moderna vaccine doses, Navy corpsmen and VA employees were not only running the clinic but transporting patients through the hospital tramways to overcome accessibility limitations.
"It's a great opportunity for corpsmen to use the clinical skills they may not be able to use on a daily basis, depending on where they're placed in the organization," Kennedy said.
Since established in 2010 as the nation's first fully integrated federal health care center in support of both the Department of Defense and the VA, Lovell FHCC's mission is best captured through the motto, "Readying Warriors, Caring for Heroes."
One year after the coronavirus pandemic was declared, Lovell FHCC staff is still adapting to the changes in responding to the novel disease.
"The (COVID-19 vaccination) team is so focused on the patients and getting us out of this pandemic," Kennedy said. "No matter what is thrown at them, when asked if they can do it, the answer is going to be yes."
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Latasha Smith: Warrior against COVID-19
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Latasha Smith, an Airman assigned to the 86th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, was celebrated as Airlifter of the Week, Jan. 27, 2022, after leading the assault against COVID-19 for over a year.
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A team composed of U.S. Navy medical personnel and civilian technicians based out of the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, assembled during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 to study the short and long-term effects that the virus has on Marines.
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This is my Why
Air Force Senior Airman Marcus Bullock stated his reason for getting the vaccine was to help his mother and son be able to have a play date again.
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Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Tessa Hazard, a respiratory therapist, recently deployed to Alabama as a member of a COVID-19 response team.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.


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519.Australiana: Planning and Managing the West Coast
Home / Photo Stories: February and March 2016 / 519.Australiana: Planning and Managing the West Coast
Presented by: Rory O'Brien
Review written by: Rory O'Brien
The Speaker has often been asked the question, "Why do we need specialised Planning and Management of the coast?"
There are three major reasons:
1. The coast is potentially unstable landform even in its natural state.
2. The coast is a highly desirable habitat for people especially in Australia with its harsh interior climate. Eighty five percent of the Australian population lives in coastal cities and six million Australians live within 3 kilometres of the coast.
3. There is increasing competition between industry, mining, farming, residential, recreation and fishing for land uses along the coast.
The sum total of people pressures leads to degradation of coastal landscapes and coastal waters. Evidence from elsewhere in the world suggests that unless such land uses are regulated and natural processes are conserved, the coast will become an ugly part of our environment.
All is not doom and gloom. Through wise land use and resource management mistakes of the past can be corrected and an improved system can be ensured.
The coastal practitioner needs to understand coastal processes in order to make good decisions for the future. Wind, waves, tides, climate, sand, rocks, vegetation and interactions between them need to be understood. Places of stability and instability can guide location of land uses and good decision making.
The coast is also a major drawcard for tourism from overseas. Our coast and beach resources, once used as a dumping ground, are now widely regarded as "international tourist destinations."
Through the use of photographs, the speaker illustrated some of the good and bad things that occurred on the Western Australian coast.
Rory O'Brien

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Maybeshould you better hate your typing mistakes !
Actually it was the seller's mistake. Not that PayPal cares.
Another thing that's bitten me is that I sometimes use my PayPal account to purchase items for work. Unless I'm completely boneheaded, I can't find a way to pay for items 100% with a credit card that I've registered with PayPal as long as I have a credit balance in my account (from items I've sold). They will deduct from my credit first, then charge the remainder to whatever means I designate.
Also, does anyone know how to transfer a credit on your PayPal account to pay towards your PayPal balance? Seems like that should be a logical option, but I can't find it for the life of me.
I'm enjoying your blog always.
By the way, doesn't PayPal allow that someone sends money first and the recipient make account later?? I have such experience. I didn't need to ask a friend to make account in advance. Of course, I confirmed that the friend accepted PayPal payment in advance. I agree that it is better to have the option that PayPal warns when the recipient address is not registered.
In addition, to my best knowledge, Internet email delivery doesn't provide way that email sender exactly notices if the email address actually exists. It depends on the recipient email server configuration, unfortunately.
I was lucky since now as I didn't had any of the pitfalls here described. But believe, after a life working inside Corporations I have had to learn day by day a terrible lesson: Business is Business. Customer care and other things doesn't mean nothing at all for any big Company or Corporation.
I remember when there was a TV spot made by Microsoft, just an example, but you could name it as you like. In this spot a guy was dancing in an open space saying words like "we could save a dime for any web transaction we will have". After two or more song replay a manager, coming from nowhere to to shut off the noise, was saying to the employee: "OK OK but why did you scream so loud". Than the employee with a big smile on the face sad to him "we have 100.000 web transactions in a hours for 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year ...". Suddenly also the manager understand the way or the dime and started dancing and quite screaming. That's the secret for the modern financial void economy, make small amount of money, well sometimes not so small, from zillions of atomized operations. Who had a problem from a single operation may be threatened as guilty in any case, there is no way to retrieve a logic controls of any operation that cost a dime and give a pound to the pseudo service furnishers.
To apply logic control or step control to any of this operation will be too costly. So those companies catch their Business also having not any kind of control over operations. This translate in all and more the pitfalls we could read here and elsewhere. And there are worst examples on the skins of everybody would have a little bit of loosened control, like developing countries and so on.
What have had the snake oil dimension now is bigger and bigger under the financial globalism, as centralized controls loose the power to act over the snake oil financial contents.
What we could do close all out PayPal account, yes it could be done. Tomorrow we will have a brand new PalPay company, that's all.
What we could have is a Global Customer care Authority, who will pay for those, as for UN agencies, the same Companies and Corporations that we are in need to be protected by.
There is a word to all this, but forget about.
We should talk about pitfalls as to make everyone knowledgeable about, but after all we will have only personal tools to act against those horrible monsters. We have to make the difference all together as usual.
I hope my ItalEnglish was readable and clear. We could still make a lot of fun with ours hobby. G4ILO, many thanks for this place.
I had a PayPal account for some time and then dumped it. When you decide to cancel the account they try to keep you as a customer so you have to be adamant.Similar reasons as given by the author.


In years gone past the Australian Sundowner was a wanderer who arrived at dusk seeking work, usually the promise of work and in turn was given a meal. However when the sun rose the next day the promise of work never eventuated as the bloke had usually moved on during the early dawn. Or… another meaning was for the 5pm happy hour drinks.
When we set out on The Lap eighteen months ago we thought we were doing very well. I had actually convinced The Man that a smart phone was the way to go… so now we're duly armed with one each. This is progress. The Man hates mobile phones and while they are invaluable when trying to find him in a shopping centre, this was the only use he could think of for those pesky mobile phones.
As we take a moment to plan, reflect and enjoy being on the Homesite before we are off on our next travel adventure there are things that I have now noticed about how the world, my world, has moved on without me.
The Season's Celebration … What is this Really?
Christmas is fast approaching on the horizon, we have skipped through Thanksgiving… irrelevant in Aus and the New Year is on the fast track including the Islamic New Year of Hijri (celebrated only since 622 AD or 615 depending on how you view it) and the Chinese New year or Spring Festival (celebrated since forever) as well as many others drawn from different cultures. So what is this all about and just what is it we all celebrate at this time of year?
In todays global society you are left wondering just what it is we all celebrate at different times but all in the same season and spirit. We should recognize our commonality and respect our differences but first we should also understand these things.


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Q: solving a minimization problem using scipy.optimize in python I have a question regarding solving a minimization problem using scipy.optimize in python. I have an 1-D array (x) containing about 2000 elements as the variables of this problem, and a list of {constraint,dict}elements as the constraints of the optimization problem.The issue is that I want to calculate the sum of a large number of variables within a for loop to define objective function and the constraints. I have attached a simple example of my code below, but it should be considered that according to the complication of my code, it is not possible to do the calculation without for loops. However, by doing this, I face with this error: 'function' object is not iterable.
def objective(x):
    sum = 0
    for i in range(1, 1000):
        sum += x[i]
    return sum

def constraints(x):
    constraint = []
    for i in range(1, 1000):
        sum = 0
        for j in range(1, 100):
            sum += j*x[i]
        constraint.append({'type': 'ineq', 'fun': 10 - sum})
    return constraint
sol = minimize(objective, x0, method='slsqp', constraints=constraints)

A: looked at the video you referenced, think you may have misunderstood a couple of things. I'll start with just a basic example to get you started.
If we take the below code:
from scipy.optimize import minimize

def objective(x):
    x1=x[0]
    x2=x[1]
    x3=x[2]
    x4=x[3]
    return x1+x2+x3+x4

x0=(1,1,1,1)
solution=minimize(objective,x0)

Simple setup. You see the python function objective is returning a math function. That math function is what you are minimizing. Note how all your variables are defined by calling the value of a list of values (x0 in this case). Thus x1 is x0[0], x2 is x0[1], etc.
In your above example, you don't define x0, and you don't have an equation. Finally, sum is a python function (it takes the sum of a list). Instead, to do what you wish to do, lets rewrite the above using a for loop now:
from scipy.optimize import minimize
import numpy as np

def objective(x):
    equation = 0
    for i in range(4):
        equation += x[i]
    return equation

x0=np.ones(4)
solution=minimize(objective,x0)

This will give you the exact same output as above; however now you can see I've changed sum to equation (now you won't get issues with built in python functions), and you've now defined your variables). I'm not going to go through all your code, but I hope this example clears enough up that it gets you going.
If you want 1000s values of x, just give x0 an array of 1000 values.
Edit:
To resolve the issue in the 2nd part of your code:
Presuming you fixed using sum. Again, constraints is a dict where you input a function (mathematical). I don't get the error that you are getting, so I don't know where that is coming from. But you can create a constraint function using your above example.
def constraints(x):
    constraint = []
    for i in range(4):
        value = 0
        for j in range(4):
            value += 10-j*x[i]
        constraint.append(value)
    return constraint

x0=np.ones(4)
con={'type': 'ineq', 'fun': constraints}
sol = minimize(objective, x0, method='slsqp', constraints=con)

Edit 2:
You can use the exact same ideology above to create a 2nd constraint:
from scipy.optimize import minimize
import numpy as np

def objective(x):
    equation = 0
    for i in range(4):
        equation += x[i]
    return equation

def constraints(x):
    constraint = []
    for i in range(4):
        value = 0
        for j in range(4):
            value += 10-j*x[i]
        constraint.append(value)
    return constraint

def constraints2(x):
    constraint2 = []
    for a in range(4):
        value = 0
        for b in range(4):
            value += 5-a*x[b]
        constraint2.append(value)
    return constraint2

x0=np.ones(4)
con={'type': 'ineq', 'fun': constraints}
con2={'type': 'eq', 'fun': constraints2}
combined=[con,con2]
sol = minimize(objective, x0, method='slsqp', constraints=combined)

This works without any problems or errors, so again, I don't see the problem you are having.

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7.12.02 – (LAA) – TWA Flight 800, State of American Airlines, HR 4625
Hello. This is APFA Communications Coordinator George Price with a special hotline message.
Today, July 17th , at 8:31p.m. Eastern Time, marks the sixth anniversary of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Twenty-eight working Flight Attendants, four Flight Attendants pass riding, and a number of other TWA employees died in this tragedy. Please take a moment to remember those lost on July 17, 1996.
Please stay on the line for the regular Friday edition of the APFA HotLine.
Don Carty has sent out several messages to employees via JetWire regarding the state of American Airlines. He has alluded to a new business plan, which may require "fewer" employees than are currently employed. Mr. Carty goes on to say that it is his hope that any overage that may occur as a result of his new plan will be dealt with through normal attrition and retirements. The APFA National Officers along with officers from the other unions on the property met with members of senior management today. The group was informed that no decisions have yet been made regarding any changes in the company's so called business model. Management reiterated that "everything" is being considered. When asked, management re-confirmed to APFA President John Ward that the company is not seeking concessions nor are they asking to reopen our collective bargaining agreement as a means of cost savings. As soon as the APFA is provided with more details of what Mr. Carty and upper management have planned and just how it may affect Flight Attendants, we will update the hotlines and web site. Until then, please avoid rumors and speculation. It only adds to the stress of an already stressful situation.
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 4625) that would require mandatory self-defense training for Flight Attendants, discreet, hands-free, wireless method of communicating with the Pilots, and a study of non-lethal weapons for Flight Attendants.
The training would also include:
-Training in psychology of terrorists in order to cope with their behavior
-Response to aircraft maneuvers
-Training in proper conduct of a cabin search
The bill directs the Transportation Security Agency to designate a person to oversee the training, set the required number of hours for the training, and outline the qualifications for the training instructors. The APFA is very pleased with the final version of this bill as it pertains to Flight Attendants. APFA issued a statement to the press in which APFA President John Ward stated, "The APFA commends the leadership of the House Transportation Committee for addressing the concerns of Flight Attendants in this bill." He went on to say, "This legislation provides us with the tools we need to better protect ourselves and our passengers." The complete text of this press release can be found on the APFA Web site under "For the Press." The Senate version of this bill faces an uncertain future.
APFA President John Ward traveled to Washington, D.C. on Thursday, July 11, to meet with Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. President Ward wanted to personally thank Senator Feinstein for sponsoring the Senate Resolution acknowledging Flight Attendants for their professionalism and bravery and discuss with her legislation she plans to soon introduce regarding cabin air quality. To view a copy of the Senate resolution, please go to the web site under "Hot Topics." President Ward also had the opportunity to meet with several members of the House Transportation Committee. He thanked each of them for the work they are doing for Flight Attendants and our membership in particular.
The APFA Officer on Duty is a service provided after hours by the APFA for Flight Attendants who are involved in an emergency situation. Such emergencies may include an aircraft incident or accident, passenger misconduct, safety or security issues, or an immediate legality issue. All other calls left for the Officer on Duty will be routed to the appropriate department or representative for response the next business day.
The APFA Safety Department wants to remind all Flight Attendants that the company is offering voluntary self-defense classes. Members of the Safety Department have attended these classes and feel they are very worthwhile. If you have not signed up for one of the classes, please consider doing so. You can easily sign up through the American Airlines Flight Service Web site. Once you have attended the self-defense training class, please let the APFA know what you thought. You do this by completing the self-defense survey on the APFA Web site under the "Safety First" icon on the opening page.
The APFA is aware that American Airlines did not send TWA-LLC Flight Attendants on furlough or on inactive status an APFA Information Packet. These packets contained general information regarding the APFA and the Membership Application/Dues Check-off Authorization Card. In order to begin receiving APFA mail including Skyword, the official newsletter of the APFA, gain access to the "members only" section of the APFA Web site, and have the ability to vote in union elections, the APFA must have your personal contact information. If you did not receive an APFA Information Packet, please contact the Membership Department at APFA Headquarters by calling 800-395-2732, extension 8153 or by e-mail at Membership@apfa.org.
On Thursday, July 18, 2002, PrimeTime Live will run a story on American Airlines Flight 11. Included will be interviews with family members of Flight Attendants Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong as well as some other American Airlines employees.
The June, Issue 5 edition of Skyword contains a Critical Incident Stress Management Survey. APFA has teamed with the Critical Incident Stress Foundation to develop this survey in order to gauge how our membership is coping with the tragic events of the fall of 2001. The APFA leadership asks that you take a few moments to complete this survey. You will return only the answer sheet using the self-addressed envelope provided.
It was reported last week that the man involved in the LAX shooting at the El Al ticket counter operated a transportation company that serviced LAX. The name of the suspect's company is similar to the one used by AMR to transport crews, but it is not the same company. AMR uses Five Star Transportation, Inc. The owner of this company is Mr. George Reyes who formally worked for AMR Corporation before opening his own transportation company.
The APFA Hotel Department reports that American has renewed the contract the Sherry Frontenac in Miami. Again, this was due in large part to the feedback received by our membership. Keep those reports coming!
The LGA Base Representatives in cooperation with New York Flight Service will be holding a series of seminars designed to help Flight Attendants deal with the various challenges created by the tragic events of the fall of 2001. Dr. Jeffrey Lating will conduct the seminars. Dr. Lating is the person who trained APFA Representatives in Critical Incident Stress Management and created the CISM Survey in the June, Issue 5 edition of Skyword. Seminars will be offered from 0900-1030, 1130-1300, 1330-1500, and from 1530-1700 on Monday, July 15, 2002, at the JFK Group Room.
On July 18, 2002, the company along with WINGS will be sponsoring a bone marrow screening at the DFW Airport. This is being done in hopes of locating a donor match for one of our fellow Flight Attendants. Screening will take place in the Yandry Suite across from Gate C2 from 0900-1600. It will take about fifteen minutes and will involve a blood test and a short medical history. If you are already on the bone marrow registry, there is no need to submit to the screening process again. Your name will remain on the list. For more information, please call Baylor University Medical Center at 214-820-1583.
I am going to end this week's hotline with a reminder that there are 1566 Flight Attendants who remain on furlough as of today. You are NOT forgotten!
That is it for this edition of the APFA HotLine. Please remain vigilant and carry your Contract!
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Another YCA job well done !
Handling is kind of drifty, a little extreme for me, but it is fun. My headlights don't seem to light anything up. Anyone else experience this?
Model itself is great, but the handling is ugly, the lights get tinted when you tint the windows and there's no extra parts whatsoever.
Please update the few bugs it have :( Its a great car but just needs a few adjustments.
@Dismaliciousx Same problem. Did you fix it?


When you really pause and think about the size, speed and sound of a huge vampire bat in real life, I wouldn't see a ton of "cute".
I agree; that goes from "cute" to a terror from Karzahni and that wants to eat Okotans.
This is going to sound weird, but Zelkriph would probably make a sound similar to the Tarakava in the MNOG.
well then, their ears go out before they do. Ouch!
Hi I'm back and yes, we could do that. We are only keeping Axato for last.
Alright; could we get a look at Velka next? I'm curious about the back of the figure that we can see in the teaser poster.
May I ask who the project concept artist is; highest compliments and props to them.. I'm guessing that the spiral, chain and the sword are nuva-esque symbol ideas. Loving it still. can't wait to see what's next.
well, give him my regards on this. I recommend that the stuff that isn't his own work be cited, to avoid copyright based issues.
How could copyright come into this?
it could as you said that some of the pieces were "definitely" not his. someone could press charges. I only said the copyright stuff because I don't want this thing torn down by such issues, especially after all the hard work you and the rest of the project team put into it.
I only said the copyright stuff because I don't want this thing torn down by such issues, especially after all the hard work you and the rest of the project team put into it.
I understand your concern but I don't think anyone is going to be too bothered since all the art is going to the same goal, plus we've incorporated bits of it into everything so nothing goes unused. Additionally i stand by using definitely since I remember Vakota drew some art.
Thanks, and again: Love the art and stories you guys are putting up. thanks very much for understanding.
All the concept art or work done for the project can be shared unless the author explicitly said that don't want his work to be used or shared. We will give all the credits at the end when all the sets have building instructions. In the meantime I think the symbols were made by Tawa of Fire but I'm not 100% sure.
thank you for responding. I love the art and stories you guys are posting here. Mad props to you and the ful project team. can't wait to see how the story develops.
As usual give your thoughts. Before we were asked if we didn't mind reviews of these sets being posted on the boards, of course we don't, in fact we encourage but only if people want to.
Cheers everyone. So far the feedback on this project has been fantastic and we have taken it all on board; we hope this continue and hope you guys are enjoying everything we've done so far, have you?
Alright, so I think I can safely say that we have been enjoying this.
As for Velka: Overall the set looks pretty good. But it definitely has too many colors. The weapons also look kinda weak. But the build is really interesting and overall the model is pretty alright.
This one is nice too, but the general of water is still my favorite.
This MOC (or should I call it a set? I don't know) has definitely too many colors though.
This MOC (or should I call it a set?
I'll call it a set, then!
Honestly your investment in this project is amazing, and so far I love it. Keep up this great work!
In the meantime I think the symbols were made by Tawa of Fire but I'm not 100% sure.
The artist wasn't me, however I can explain that those "nuva" symbols were an idea that we played around with. Basically there was an idea of placing a symbol on top of the generals' masks that corresponded to their abilities/weapons.


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Fifty years ago. Almost a lifetime.
On September 14-15, I attended my 50th Bismarck High School Reunion. The organizers had done an amazing job of communicating with every graduate that they could find. They created two evening events with other opportunities interspersed within the same time period – lunch at the iconic Big Boy and a tour of the high school itself. On Saturday, they made all of us teary eyed as they showed slides of all of our classmates who were deceased, starting with the soldiers of the Vietnam War, one of whom died just after graduation in 1969. While I only attended the two dinners, I had ample opportunities to meet and spend time with old friends. Thankfully, everyone had name tags – printed with women's maiden names where appropriate and in a large font!
Everyone, of course, had changed over such a long span of time. But for me, I felt as if I was a totally different person from the one I was in 1968. In 1968, I was very skinny, dressed in home-made clothes, and my hair cuts were all done by my mother, who was not a hairdresser. This was in stark contrast to the more popular girls who were very attractive, dressed in the current fashion, and beautifully coiffed.
But the larger contrast was my view of the world. In high school my sphere of friends was mostly concentrated in the Luther League group at Trinity Lutheran Church. During the school year, we had a potluck every Sunday and often did group outings to bowling alleys or roller-skating parks. While I never had a date in high school, my life was filled with these activities – and a lot of studying. I was one of the five valedictorians that year.
But today I am the polar opposite of my Twiggy persona. I have been happily married for 30 years and have a 27-year-old son, twin stepdaughters and two grandchildren. And yes, I don't sew my own wardrobe or do my own hair anymore.
The most striking contrast, however, is that I am an atheist activist. My husband I and both exited religion two decades ago. We never thought much of it, but then on June 28, 2014, the U. S. Supreme Court in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby issued its 5-4 seminal decision to allow this privately held company to refuse to provide certain forms of birth control to its female employees because of the "company's religious views." I was incensed. I remember a friend who, in all likelihood, had flown to New York during our last year in school to obtain an abortion in the only state which allowed it at the time. I remember arriving in Seattle at a hotel during a Luther League trip and finding an immaculate room – except for the two bloody towels in the bathroom. At Concordia College in 1969, they impounded our student newspapers because they had a small add about abortion services in New York. And of course, I remember the decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
I ended up editing two anthologies about how religion subjugates women, Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion and Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith… and for Freedom, started a YouTube channel and blog – the Faithless Feminist – and spoke at national secular conventions.
Were there other atheists at my reunion? Undoubtedly there were a few. But for me, I had shifted 180 degrees from the shy girl of Luther League to the activist writer I am today.
That was my last trip to North Dakota. I haven't kept in close touch with anyone who lives there. My sister and I drove past our old house built by my father and his former office, a house built in the early 20th century. And we stopped at Trinity Lutheran Church and took pictures of the plaques my sister had purchased in our names and the names of our parents.
But 50 years later, the church is undoubtedly still filled on Sundays with congregants singing the same hymns we sang in choir. Will our country ever abandon religion? How many lifetimes will it take before people realize it's just a myth, just like the myths of the pharaohs, the Aztecs, and the Babylonians? I can only hope.
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Today we revisited Chowki Drug, Pabbi Nowshehra villages and held another medical clinic. This area is about 2-3 kilometres from the main GT road and is one of the most badly affected areas. The lucky ones are living in tents, others are crammed into the brick built government schools or colleges but most have no shelter at all from the ongoing rain.
There are no roads to these villages from the main road and the ongoing rain and mud make the route very treacherous. Today it rained again and we were in imminent danger of being stranded with the villagers. So with heavy hearts we took the decision to abandon the clinic. We had been able to treat around 90 patients suffering from skin infections, eye infections and gastrointestinal problems before being forced back.


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This is a well-known and highly regarded technique within the medical profession. Elizabeth is the resident Osteopath for Back Fit and following a 30-year career in sports and Remedial therapies; she then studied a further 4 years full-time for her Masters, gaining a 2:1 with honours, at the European School of Osteopathy.
This treatment offers a wide variety of techniques, including the General Osteopathic Technique (GOT), Mobilisation, spinal adjustments, joint alignments, Muscle Energy Techniques (MET), soft tissue manipulation, visceral and neural techniques, the list is endless and everything is applied appropriately for the individuals need, relating to age, injury or condition.
The aim of this treatment is to restore the tissues to normal or improved function. The session will be based around the specific problem presented with any related issues addressed in the process.
Patients can expect a comfortable treatment, which holds the patients wishes at its centre. The patient will always need to give consent for the type of treatment given, therefore allowing the patient 'shared decision making' for the session. An explanation of what is suggested will be given prior to the treatment.
Elizabeth will always check the case history and if there are any changes since you're last visit. Pre-treatment testing and post treatment rehabilitation advice can be expected with every session.
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Outstanding as to be expected…but what is that shape about mid-third in front?
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lucky you!! just keep struggling on … lol.
an amazing shot, stunning with the light coming down under the surface…and the silhouette of the surfer, just beautiful.
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The Runner's World Event is Next Week!
I am going to the Runner's World Half and Festival – presented by by Altra Zero Drop Footwear – on October 20th and the 21st as a FitFluential Ambassador and blogger!
You can still get a 10% discount on your race registration (any or all three of the races) use the discount code Blogger22, but online registration ends Monday.
It is hard to believe that next Wednesday I will be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania participating in the Runner's World Half Events. This is my first destination race, one where I have gone more than an hour away from home or spent the night someplace for the purpose of running in races.
To be honest there are a few conflicting emotions going on right now.
Over the past month I have done a lot of thinking about my running and my blog. This morning I decided to change the focus of A Veteran Runnah and updated it to reflect my new focus.
The focus of A Veteran Runnah has been a bit scattered at times, though I write mostly about running, with a bit of technology, healthy living and life adventures thrown in.
Over the past year, I have been yapping about wanting to run the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) in 2013, which just happens to be 30 years after I struggled to finish MCM back in 1983.
This was the day that I chose to make a decision about whether to run a fall marathon or not. Over the past couple of months I have been sort of – not so secretly increasing my mileage to the distances that I believe I need to be running in order for me to run, not just finish a marathon, without injuring myself.
Today was supposed to be only an 8.0 miler according to my original ideas for this week.
Instead I decided to challenge myself this week to see if my body will hold up for the marathon distance training.
June was a month of reflection, change and decisions for me.
Only time will tell if they were the correct choices, but I am comfortable with the direction that we are going and the changes that TheWife and I have decided are right for us.
Most notable run 6/1812 finished 13.30 in 01:49:44 an 8:15 pace for the half marathon in a training run.
Today was a scheduled recovery day after yesterday's long run, so I planned on doing an easy 3-4 miles at around a 10:00 minute pace. The weather cooperated and the downpour slowed up to a nice steady rain, which I actually love to run in this time of year.
The rain makes the humidity just about right and cools me off, my feet don't get too wet and there is just something peaceful and magical about running in the rain. Also I ran most of the run "down back" so it was on dirt (partially mud) roads and was very forgiving to land on.
Throughout my life I have set many goals – related to: life, work, education, health, running and I do not really buy into the concept that failure is a good thing.
Instead I believe that smaller successes, bring about larger success.
Have I always been successful – of course not – I am human.
Have I had failures – monumental ones.
However, each time that I have failed, there were still parts, where I was successful and I have learned to build off those smaller successes, instead of focusing too much on what went wrong or what many would consider my failures.
In this picture I was on my way to finishing the Marine Corps Marathon in 1983, after I DNF the 1982 race. I didn't give up, instead I learned from my mistakes and was motivated to be successful, not fearful of failure.
Photo at the start of the month, each month I plan to put my favorite photo in the monthly summary.
March is always a weird month weather-wise you just never know what you are going to get. This past month one week we were battling snow, then 80 degree weather and then back to cold, snow and blustery wind – the old saying "just wait a minute the weather will be different".
While I have increased my running a lot over the last month – blogging and social media have taken a backseat to starting to look at getting either a part-time or full-time job again. Retirement is great, but with the price of everything going up (officially there is no inflation – things just cost us more) our budget is stretched a little lot too thin. So to do the things we want to do, it is time to look at me getting a job again.
Now to figure out what I want to do when I grow up – if I ever decide to grow up 🙂 so wish me luck on this job search.
I have a confession to make – I am not an élite runner – that isn't really earth shattering news to anyone.
Actually, I am not even all that good of a runner at the local level either – not much of a surprise here either.
While I am being totally honest, I am what most "competitive" runners would consider a "recreational" runner – I don't race all that often (though I will race more this year than I have in a long time), for many reasons – but that is a different post.
Even though I haven't raced very often I do run a lot and yes I run to get better at running – so no I am not a jogger (runner vs jogger – it's an attitude, not a pace per mile).
I am strictly what could be considered a middle of the pack runner.


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Q: Saving Array of hashmaps to local database in Android Studio I am new to Android development.
I am trying to save an array of map in local storage of Android.
Then, the user would get the data, modify the data, and save the array to where it was originally saved.
So for instance, if I have array {Map1, Map2, Map3, Map4, Map5 }
I will save this to local storage, the next time user opens the app, I will retrieve the array, maybe add another map  {Map1, Map2, Map3, Map4, Map5, Map6}, and save it.
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2) you can use XML or JSON parser(JSON is the best) then you just use a library for serializing and parse data such as Gson, logan square, etc.

A: You can convert your data to json string and save to Shared Preferences. Whenever you want to get data, you just need parse this json string.


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Are there between 100,000-300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today?
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore state this as part of the "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" campaign.
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There's between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," Ashton Kutcher tells CNN's Piers Morgan. "If you don't do something to stop that -- that's when there's something wrong with you.
It has been repeated in numerously, e.g. USA Today
Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children "Each year, 100,000 to 300,000 American kids, some as young as 12 years old, are exploited in the sex trade"
The study (The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico), released Monday, reported that 300,000 to 400,000 children in the United States — 1 in 100 children
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I note that the quotes from USA Today and Real Men Don't Buy Girls campaign are not consistent, suggesting at least one of them are wrong. One says "today" and the other says "each year". As an analogy, compare this (fictional) example "Each year, 67% of adults waited in line at the post office." to "Today, 67% of adults are waiting in line at the post office." – Oddthinking♦ Apr 24 '12 at 7:58
This appears to be the report that Village Voice claim is the origin of the claim. I certainly agree that the information is presented in a confusing way. Pages 11-14, with a large cautionary note on page 10, seem to be the main source, with page 28/29 supporting (?) it. The latter explicitly only includes runaways out for longer than a week, undermining a Village Voice claim. – Oddthinking♦ Apr 24 '12 at 8:20
Another confusion being made is the distinction in definitions (if any) between a youth resorting to individual cases of prostitution to get enough money to stay alive and being a "sex slave". – Oddthinking♦ Apr 24 '12 at 8:23
This sounds too much like the usual moral panic not to make me skeptical. Oh, and the numbers are just unrealistically high. – Konrad Rudolph Apr 24 '12 at 13:38
I wonder why Estes uses NISMART-1 data when newer NISMART-2 data was available? – user1873 Apr 24 '12 at 14:05
The Village Voice performed two months of investigative research and found weak evidence to back that claim:
Law enforcement records show that there were only 8,263 arrests across America for child prostitution during the most recent decade.
The "100,000 to 300,000" figure ... came from two University of Pennsylvania professors, Richard J. Estes and Neil Alan Weiner. ... that the figure actually represents the number of children Estes and Weiner considered "at risk" for sexual exploitation, not the number of children actually involved. Who, then, is at risk? Not surprisingly, the professors find that any "outsider" is at risk. All runaways are listed as being at risk. Yet the federal government's own research acknowledges that "most runaway/thrown-away youth were gone less than one week (77 percent)"—hardly enough time to take up prostitution
David Finkelhor, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire ... "As far as I'm concerned, [the University of Pennsylvania study] has no scientific credibility to it," he says. "That figure was in a report that was never really subjected to any kind of peer review. It wasn't published in any scientific journal."
Simple math shows 300,000 is too high. That's 1 in a thousand of the total population. Since only a quarter or so of the US is a minor, that means around 1 in 250 children would be a sex slave. – Vincent Jun 4 '18 at 4:28
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10 songs from the last 5 years that need to be in Rock Band
Suriel Vazquez@SurielVazquez	 October 7, 2015 8:32 AM
Rock Band's characters do a great job of matching their movements with the game's songs.
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A new Rock Band game is out this week (read our review of it here), and it's the first one we've had in five years. Rock Band 3 came out in 2010, and the series' immense downloadable content offerings stopped trickling out mid-2013 (then returned earlier this year). Rock Band 4 should bring with it another long, healthy round of DLC, and I'm eager to see what Harmonix does with their reinvigorated campaign.
The return of DLC also means people will once again incessantly request that their favorite songs make it into the game. After playing a ton of Rock Band 4, I have a few ideas of my own. In general, I'm hoping Harmonix uses the return of their best series to break genre molds as much as possible and add music people wouldn't think would necessarily fit a Rock Band game. The songs I'm suggest don't always fit the Rock Band mold, but that's the point. If Rock Band's going to reach new audiences, it's going to have to use new music to do it.
"Bunker Buster" By Viet Cong
Viet Cong belongs in a Rock Band game, but I can understand why they've been left out. They've only been around for one album, and their history (half the band is from the post-punk group Women) is more obscure than might fit Rock Band. Their sound also lines up with what people expect from the game already, but it's not as friendly as a lot of modern rock bands. People will have a harder time listening to the sample that plays when looking through DLC in the game's store and get a feel for what they'll be playing; keys, rhythms, and tone change so often in a Viet Cong song that the sample may not represent the song as a whole. That said, "Bunker Buster" is the most approachable song off the band's latest self-titled album, and I think it could pave the way for Harmonix to include an even wider range of rock music in the game.
"Blockbuster Night Part 1" by Run the Jewels
Most beats in hip-hop don't fit Rock Band. Either they contain no guitar or "real" drum beats at all, or the ones they do have loop endlessly in order to drive attention towards the rapper or group's lyricism. None of this is the case for "Blockbuster Night Part 1," as El Producto's beats line up perfectly with the kind of song we'd expect from Rock Band DLC. The audience for Rock Band and Run the Jewels also lines up more than you'd think, and I imagine it'd be a popular download for a lot of fans.
"Under Control" By The Internet
Like hip-hop, you wouldn't expect R&B to make the cut when it comes to providing solid drum, bass, and guitar rhythms, but The Internet infuses so much soul and funk into their albums that quite of few of the songs from their latest album, Ego Death, could easily slide into the Rock Band mold. "Under Control" provides just enough energy to transition people from one song to another like you would in a regular playlist. It can scale up or down. It's also just a good song.
"Reflektor" by Arcade Fire
I'm surprised we haven't seen any song from Arcade Fire in Rock Band thus far. Maybe it's the band shying away from larger exposure, wanting to remain "indie" even as they win Grammys? Whatever the reason for their absence, now's as good a time as ever for them to make their debut. If the Black Keys can get away with it, so can Arcade Fire. And "Reflektor" is the kind of seven-minute odyssey where you won't mind not playing your part for a little while.
"II. Shadow" by Childish Gambino
I'll be the first to admit that if Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) comes to Rock Band, it'll have to be via one of these variety packs featuring other artists to mix it up. Most of his songs simply don't fit. But "II. Shadows" is not only one of Gambino's best songs, it's also one the one most suited Rock Band. It has a relaxing, notable guitar loop, some impressive drumming, and the most appropriate lyrics (save for some light cursing). Childish Gambino is probably many kids' favorite rapper, and he should find a home with some of the game's younger fans.
"We Were Rock & Roll" By Janelle Monáe
Harmonix teased us by including a song featuring Janelle Monáe in Rock Band Blitz ("We are Young" by Fun), but I'm hopeful that someday they'll add a proper song of hers, and "We Were Rock & Roll" fits in nicely with the rest of Rock Band. Rock Band sorely lacks black musicians (especially modern ones), and having a upbeat, heavy-tempo song like "We Were Rock & Roll" would be a nice way to appeal to new audiences and showcase more diverse talent, especially considering black musicians' role in establishing rock as a genre in the mid 20th century.
"Graceless" by The National
This is another band that I'm surprised has yet to make it into a Rock Band game (maybe lead singer Matt Berninger is one of those guys who thinks music games detract from learning to play real instruments?). The National seems like an easy addition, and "Graceless" is probably their most friendly song for the game, as it starts with a active introduction and builds its momentum throughout. It's either this or "Bloodbuzz Ohio," but I'm guessing the more recent song would take precedence.
"Under the Pressure" by The War on Drugs
"Under the Pressure" is already in Guitar Hero Live, but I specifically want it in Rock Band because the song's drum section sounds ridiculously fun to play. I'd also argue that it's a better fit for Rock Band than Guitar Hero, since it plays to the former's more lax nature instead of Guitar Hero's more skill-oriented focus.
"King Kunta" by Kendrick Lamar
If you want to introduce an audience that listens primarily to rock music to hip-hop, Kendrick Lamar should be among the first artists you use to make the introduction. Lamar's latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, displays a musical craftsmanship few albums of any genre can muster, which should appeal to any audiophile worth their salt. "King Kunta" is also a hit in its own right and could bring quite a few downloads on its popularity alone.
"New You" by My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine belongs in Rock Band, and a song from their new album is as good a way as any to do it. I'm guessing most My Bloody Valentine fans would simply prefer all of the Loveless album make it up on the store, but I imagine they'll take anything they can get. They can start here and see where it goes.
I want to see tons of other songs make it into Rock Band, but I think these have the best shot at making it in while also expanding the definition of what a "Rock Band song" could be. And if Rock Band hopes to remain relevant in the coming years, that might just be what they have to do: find ways to incorporate more genres than they've ever had before.
If you're interested in more Rock Band coverage, check out Five Rock Band songs I've learned to love here.
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From James Madison to William Short, 3 December 1809
To William Short
Washington Decr. 3. 1809
I duly recd. your favor of Sepr. 15.1 to which was annexed the copy of Count Romanzoff's letter to you. The latter has been communicated to Mr. Jefferson, and will be placed in the Archives of our Foreign Dept. It is a very pleasing proof of the good will of the Emperor of Russia towards this Country, as well as of the just sentiments he entertains of Mr. Jefferson, and you did very right, in cherishing both by yielding to the request on the subject of the letter of Credence.
The several letters written before & after your sailing from the U. S were all recd. If you did not hear from me in consequence of them by Mr. Coles, it was because I could in that manner best decline a subject on which I did not wish to repeat communications which Mr. Jefferson told me he should particularly make to you, and which I was sure you would understand as expressing my feelings not less than his own.2
I send this with public dispatches from the Dept of State for Genl. Armstrong; and I add to it two Gazettes containing the communications just made to Congs. There appears to be a great disappointment among some, produced by the conduct of G. B. & her Minister, and among all, as far as yet appears, no little indignation agst. both.
I thank you for your friendly wishes, and pray you to be assured of mine for your success in whatever may concern your happiness; and of my great esteem & sincere regard.
RC (DLC: Short Papers). Docketed by Short, "recd. from Gl. Armstrong—Jan 10. 1810."
1. PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984-). description ends , 1:379.
2. Earlier in the year Jefferson had explained the background of the Senate's unanimous rejection of Short's nomination for the Russian mission and reassured Short that his personal esteem was undiminished (Jefferson to Short, 8 Mar. 1809, Ford, Writings of Jefferson, 9:249–50).
Short, William
"From James Madison to William Short, 3 December 1809," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0122. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 105–106.]
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Windows Phone finally says goodbye to carrier interference
One of Apple's biggest innovations is often one we don't think about. When they launched the iPhone, they also set a new benchmark for interactions with carriers. Traditionally these carriers would take a device from the manufacturer, then add their bloat ware, while also delaying the launch for weeks...
Review: Nokia Lumia 925
Nokia was once the king of the mobile world, with 40% of the market back in 2008 before the iPhone came to shake things up. The Finnish company now has less than 15% of the worlds market just five years after it was at its peak. Nokia saw that...
Was Windows Phone the right move for Nokia?
Nokia was once the king of the mobile world, holding 40% of the smart phone market in 2008 before Apple's iPhone came to shake things up. The Finnish company now has less than 15% of the worlds market just five years after it was at its peak. Nokia saw...
Jerk move of the year goes to Instagram, deleting photos from Instance
Well dick move of the year goes to Instagram. The Verge are reporting that Windows Phone users who upload using 3rd party clients like Instance are having photos removed. While Instagram seemed to be ignoring the cries for Windows Phone users and even Nokia themselves for a native app,...
Leaked Nokia '909′ images reveals "Pro Cam" and hint at massive camera
An image of what is meant to be the long-awaited Windows Phone successor to Nokia's 808 PureView phone have surface on the internet. The image comes from EVleaks, who has previously referred to the phone, codenamed EOS as the Lumia 1020, but it is understood that the device is...
In the market of low-end smartphones, it's usually dominated by cheap Android phones that work better as a target practice than a smartphone. These things are cluggy, have horrible cameras and usually have horrible screens to go with it. The Nokia Lumia 520 is in this low-end smartphone price...
Google says: Microsoft, remove YouTube you aren't showing ads, Microsoft says: Okay, we will include ads then
Google is spitting the dummy at Microsoft's new YouTube app for Windows Phone, claiming that it is breaching terms and conditions of using the company's YouTube APIs by not including ads with its videos. The search giant sent out a cease and desist letter to Microsoft requesting that the...
Microsoft's new Windows Phone ad is great
Microsoft's new Windows Phone ad is hilarious – it is centered around a beautiful wedding which then breaks into a massive fight over iPhones and Android devices. The ad is meant to convince users to switch from their current phones to Windows Phone – I'm not sure how well...
Microsoft to release "Switch to Windows Phone" app for Android
Microsoft is throwing everything it has at trying to get users to switch to their Windows Phone platform – including releasing a "Switch to Windows Phone" Android app to encourage Android users to swap over to their mobile platform. According to Neowin, Microsoft is set to release the application...


A good Scottish basket hilted broad sword dating to the second quarter of the 18th century. The fully developed hilt consists of boldly made rounded bars and flattened well-formed guard plates pierced with triangles, circles and engraved with line decoration. The plates are cut with fretted edges fashioned as squares and merlons. An oval "horseman" ring is built into the front of the hilt.
The pommel is dome shaped with an integral button on top. The three upper arms of the guard are securely tucked into a groove cut almost all around the lower half of the pommel. The sword hilt is tight and secure in hand.
The tapering double-edged broadsword blade has a ricasso which extends for 2 inches (5 cm) from the hilt. Two broad fullers sit inside this and emanate from the hilt alongside each blunt edge and terminate where the sharp edges begin. From the end of the ricasso either side three pronounced fullers extend side by side down the blade to its tip. Inside the central fuller on one side is the punched name "ANDRIA FARARA" further embellished by cross marks inside the central fuller and those adjacent. The same marks were once applied in the same places on the other side of the blade but are now feint.
The original grip is of wood, spirally grooved and covered with shagreen and bound with twisted strips of wire. A "Turks Head" is present at the top of the grip and an iron band has been applied to the base. The hilt retains a leather liner. In general the sword is in good condition with a few minor patches of blackened age staining. The blade length is 29.5 inches (75 cm) and the overall length of the sword is 35 inches (89 cm).


116227: added octave -3 setting (by pressing octave - one more time).
Added CC support for MiniBrute Connection parameters (see user manual).
You can get the version, and start MiniBrute Connection software, to update your machine using Firmware tab.
Beta test period is over, and this version has now been officially validated.
A large number of Minibrute owners, Arturia customers, you know the people who buy the products that pay your salary? Well they requested local off and I see you have finally included it (almost 2 years after the initial requests and I suspect only because of the new Minibrute SE). Well done, except for one problem... you have not provided information on how to implement it.
Do you guys purposely try to annoy your customers or is it just incompetence?
Or maybe it's just an oversight after a week of work?
By the way, it took me 1 minute to find out! Maybe there is another way but i use MIDI CC number 122 messages: with a value of 127 local is ON, with a value of 0 local is OFF. Just test it in logic pro, working great. At your own risk if it's not the "official" way to do it.
you have not provided information on how to implement it.
It's implemented as described in the MIDI specification(MIDI CC number 122), we usually don't provide implementation details on what is standard.
could you please tell me the "Standard CCs" for LFO re-triggering and Arpeggiator mode?
but do I get it right, local off function just works with se and not with the old black one?
I can't just try myself, because I sold my minibrute (shame on me) now thinking of buying a black one again if its got local off.
Sorry to be somewhat off topic, but by 'black one' do you guys mean 'blue one'? Because my minibrute is blue.
interesting, I wouldn't call that one blue at all.
But yep, that's what he's talking about.
Thanks for this release Bruno et al. I'm curious though as though as to why no email was sent to registered users about the update nor was it included in the Arturia newsletter. This firmware update is quite significant, I would think Arturia would want to spread the word for those Minibrute users who opt not to participate in the forum. Just my .02.


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Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
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AUTHOR Weart, Spencer R.
TITLE Nuclear Fear: A History of Images
PUBLISHER Harvard University Press
CITY Cambridge, MA
DATE PUBLISHED 1988
The book contains much of the same information as histories of atomic and nuclear energy, but Weart presents it in a way that expresses the impact of nuclear energy on human consciousness. The author discusses the harnessing of nuclear energy in the broadest scope, from radiation treatments to nuclear powered submarines. However, his work highlights psychological reactions. Through a repeated meditation on images, he tries to illustrate the primal human fears and urges accompanying the unlocking of nature's explosive power. The psychological analyses interpret the significance of images such as mushroom clouds, and womb associations with nuclear bombs. The fourth part of the book, called "Suspect Technology", illustrates the early expression of human fears of apocalypse and radiation through artistic media such as film. The author handles complex issues with an exemplary writing style.
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We must find ways to ensure that human-robot interactions occur in ways that are safe and are consistent with our cultural values. We must take care that our policies and laws provide artificial intelligence tools with the direction we need without quashing or hindering the innovations that could improve our lives.
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Blockchains, decentralized databases that are maintained by a distributed network of computers, present manifold challenges and opportunities.
Blockchains and associated technologies offer unprecedented potential to disrupt financial systems, to support civic participation and democratized access to resources, to change the way we contract with one another, and much more.
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In an information age, where data and networks architect our public, professional, and private lives, both new opportunities and new risks arise.
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<?php

namespace HWI\Bundle\OAuthBundle\Tests\OAuth\Response;

use HWI\Bundle\OAuthBundle\OAuth\Response\PathUserResponse;

class PathUserResponseTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var PathUserResponse
     */
    private $responseObject;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->responseObject = new PathUserResponse();
    }

    public function testGetSetResponseWithJsonString()
    {
        $response = array('foo' => 'bar');

        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode($response));
        $this->assertEquals($response, $this->responseObject->getResponse());
    }

    public function testGetSetResponseWithPhpArray()
    {
        $response = array('foo' => 'bar');

        $this->responseObject->setResponse($response);
        $this->assertEquals($response, $this->responseObject->getResponse());
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException \Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AuthenticationException
     */
    public function testSetInvalidResponse()
    {
        $this->responseObject->setResponse('not_json');
    }

    public function testGetSetResourceOwner()
    {
        $resourceOwner = $this->getMockBuilder('\HWI\Bundle\OAuthBundle\OAuth\ResourceOwnerInterface')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $this->responseObject->setResourceOwner($resourceOwner);
        $this->assertEquals($resourceOwner, $this->responseObject->getResourceOwner());
    }

    public function testGetPathsReturnsDefaultDefinedPaths()
    {
        $paths = array(
            'identifier'     => null,
            'nickname'       => null,
            'firstname'      => null,
            'lastname'       => null,
            'realname'       => null,
            'email'          => null,
            'profilepicture' => null,
        );

        $this->assertEquals($paths, $this->responseObject->getPaths());
    }

    public function testSetPathsAddsNewPathsToAlreadyDefined()
    {
        $paths = array(
            'identifier'     => null,
            'nickname'       => null,
            'firstname'      => null,
            'lastname'       => null,
            'realname'       => null,
            'email'          => null,
            'profilepicture' => null,
            'foo'            => 'bar'
        );

        $responseObject = new PathUserResponse();
        $responseObject->setPaths(array('foo' => 'bar'));
        $this->assertEquals($paths, $responseObject->getPaths());
    }

    public function testGetUsername()
    {
        $paths = array('identifier' => 'id');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('id' => 666)));

        $this->assertEquals(666, $this->responseObject->getUsername());
    }

    public function testGetUsernameWithoutResponseReturnsNull()
    {
        $this->responseObject->setPaths(array('identifier' => 'id'));
        $this->assertNull($this->responseObject->getUsername());
    }

    public function testGetNickname()
    {
        // easy path
        $paths = array('nickname' => 'foo');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('foo' => 'bar')));

        $this->assertEquals('bar', $this->responseObject->getNickname());

        // nesting
        $paths = array('nickname' => 'foo.bar');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('foo' => array('bar' => 'qux'))));

        $this->assertEquals('qux', $this->responseObject->getNickname());
    }

    public function testGetRealName()
    {
        $paths = array('realname' => 'foo');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('foo' => 'bar')));

        $this->assertEquals('bar', $this->responseObject->getRealName());
    }

    public function testGetIdentifierInvalidPathReturnsNull()
    {
        $paths = array('identifier' => 'non_existing');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('foo' => 'bar')));

        $this->assertNull($this->responseObject->getNickname());
    }

    public function testNoIdentifierPathReturnsNull()
    {
        $paths = array('non_username' => 'non_existing');

        $responseObject = new PathUserResponse();
        $responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('foo' => 'bar')));

        $this->assertNull($responseObject->getNickname());
    }

    public function testGetEmail()
    {
        $paths = array('email' => 'email');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('email' => 'foo@bar.baz')));

        $this->assertEquals('foo@bar.baz', $this->responseObject->getEmail());
    }

    public function testGetEmailNotInResponse()
    {
        $paths = array('email' => 'email');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('no_email' => 'foo@bar.baz')));

        $this->assertNull($this->responseObject->getEmail());
    }

    public function testGetProfilePicture()
    {
        $paths = array('profilepicture' => 'picture');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('picture' => 'http://img')));

        $this->assertEquals('http://img', $this->responseObject->getProfilePicture());
    }

    public function testGetProfilePictureNotInResponse()
    {
        $paths = array('profilepicture' => 'picture');

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(json_encode(array('no_picture' => 'foo@bar.baz')));

        $this->assertNull($this->responseObject->getProfilePicture());
    }

    public function testGetMergeOfPathsIntoSingleField()
    {
        $paths = array('realname' => array('first_name', 'last_name'));

        $this->responseObject->setPaths($paths);
        $this->responseObject->setResponse(array('first_name' => 'foo', 'last_name' => 'bar'));

        $this->assertEquals('foo bar', $this->responseObject->getRealName());

        $this->responseObject->setResponse(array('first_name' => null, 'last_name' => 'bar'));

        $this->assertEquals('bar', $this->responseObject->getRealName());
    }
}


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Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Google parent company Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) briefly hit a market capitalization of $2 trillion on Monday, less than two years after hitting the $1 trillion mark in January 2020. Its stock price retreated back below $2 trillion shortly after topping the number.
Alphabet joins the ranks of tech giants Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), which are the only other publicly traded U.S. companies to cross the mark. Alphabet's growth has been powered by its dominance of the online advertising industry, which has long functioned as a de facto duopoly between Google and Facebook.
According to a May 2021 report by eMarketer, Google collected 27.5% of net global ad revenue in 2020, while Facebook collected 22.3%. E-commerce giants Alibaba (BABA) and Amazon (AMZN), however, are slowly catching up, with the former seeing 8.6% of global net ad revenue and the latter seeing 5.2%.
Alphabet became such a dominant force in online advertising thanks, in part to the ubiquity of its online search capabilities. After all, "Googling" became the default stand-in for performing an online search years ago.
It's not just its search engine that drove Alphabet to such heights. Its acquisition of the Android operating system in 2005 for a mere $50 million was a prescient move ahead of the launch of Apple's first iPhone in 2007.
Offering the software as an open source operating system ensured that Android became the world's most popular mobile operating system.
That allowed the company to funnel ever more user data into its advertising business, further beefing up its advertising efficiency.
A year after snapping up Android, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion. The world's largest video sharing site, YouTube has been a boon for Alphabet, enabling further advertising opportunities beyond Android and its search and mail businesses.
YouTube, however, has brought its share of controversy. The site has been frequently lambasted for allowing wild conspiracy theories and disinformation to propagate across the platform.
Alphabet has also jumped into the public cloud arena, with its Google Cloud Platform (GCP). A rival to Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud services, GCP captured just 6.1% of global market share in 2020 compared to Amazon's 40.8% and Microsoft's 19.7%, according to research firm Gartner. But Google's share has grown from 5.2% in 2019, while Amazon's fell from 44.6%.
More recently, Alphabet has found itself in the crosshairs of federal and state investigators, facing a whopping four antitrust lawsuits in the U.S. The European Union's antitrust watchdog, the European Commission, has also taken aim at Alphabet, fining the company billions of dollars for antitrust violations.
Despite such headwinds, Alphabet's stock price continues to rise, making it one of the most valuable companies on Earth by market capitalization.
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Aim to eat 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables each day.
Drink water when you're thirsty, instead of sugar-heavy soft drinks and juices.
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Make sure your portion sizes are in keeping with the Australian Dietary Guidelines' serve sizes.
Eat regularly so that you are less likely to overeat or eat foods that are heavy in fat, salts, and sugars.
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Q: I have multiple submit buttons and a validation issue with the second form So I have two forms that are hidden when submitted. The validation for the second form isn't working. Any clue as to why?
    if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
        $feet = $_POST['feet'];
        $lname = $_POST['lname'];
        if(!is_numeric($feet)){
            $isValid = false;
            $feetError = "Try again buddy";
        }
        echo "Hello Captain " . $lname . " Are you" . $feet ."ft tall?";
    }
    elseif(isset($_POST['submit2'])){
        $feet2 = $_POST['feet2'];
        $lname2 = $_POST['lname2'];
        $isValid2 = true;
        if(!is_numeric($feet2)){
            $isValid2 = false;
            $feetError2 = "Try again buddy";
        }
        echo "Hello Captain " . $lname2 . " Are you" . $feet2 ."ft tall?";
    }
    else{
    ?>
    <form name="formie" id="formie" action="test1.php" method="post">

square feet<input type="text" id="feet" name="feet"><?PHP echo $feetError; ?>

Last Name<input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">

<button type="submit" name="submit" id="submit">Submit</button>

</form>

     <form name="formie2" id="formie2" action="test1.php" method="post">

square feet<input type="text" id="feet2" name="feet2"><?PHP echo $feetError2; ?>

Last Name<input type="text" id="lname2" name="lname2">

<button type="submit" name="submit2" id="submit2">Submit</button>

</form>
<?PHP
    }
    ?>

These are all place holders BTW. The project I'm working on is much much larger, I just want to understand the whole 'hiding forms' thing before I try to implement it on a larger scale.
Thank You guys!

A: $isSubmitted = false;
$isValid = true;
$isValid2 = true;
$feetError = '';
$feetError2 = '';

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    $isSubmitted = true;
    $feet = $_POST['feet'];
    $lname = $_POST['lname'];
    if(!is_numeric($feet)){
        $isValid = false;
        $feetError = "Try again buddy";
    } else {
        echo "Hello Captain " . $lname . " Are you" . $feet ."ft tall?";
    }
}
elseif(isset($_POST['submit2'])){
    $isSubmitted = true;
    $feet2 = $_POST['feet2'];
    $lname2 = $_POST['lname2'];
    if(!is_numeric($feet2)){
        $isValid2 = false;
        $feetError2 = "Try again buddy";
    } else {
        echo "Hello Captain " . $lname2 . " Are you" . $feet2 ."ft tall?";
    }
}
?>

<?php if(!$isSubmitted || !$isValid || !$isValid2) { ?>

<form name="formie" id="formie" action="test1.php" method="post">

square feet<input type="text" id="feet" name="feet"><?PHP echo $feetError; ?>

Last Name<input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">

<button type="submit" name="submit" id="submit">Submit</button>

</form>

 <form name="formie2" id="formie2" action="test1.php" method="post">

square feet<input type="text" id="feet2" name="feet2"><?PHP echo $feetError2; ?>

Last Name<input type="text" id="lname2" name="lname2">

<button type="submit" name="submit2" id="submit2">Submit</button>

</form>

<?php } ?>

A: When you submit a form, the PHP reloads the page. When the page is reloaded, it is reloaded WITH the previous posted values of your form. Therefore it will always trigger your first condition assuming the user is submitting the first form first.
You have 2 solutions. Do separate script, or use another if, instead the if - else. I'd recommend separate script though.
I recommend separate script for each form, with a header redirecting to your website after, it's easier to remember and to order your work afterwards.


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Falling in love with every step in the wind.
The Odells dress. Wyldr jacket. Jimmy Choo heels. Alexis Bittar earrings. Dogeared necklace.
The Odells made sure that florals aren't just for spring anymore. This dress is amazing on its own when the heat is beating down, but it's also a beautiful piece to transition to a holiday look with more sparkly assets. The Odells is the namesake brainchild of the designer duo behind one of Silverlake's coolest boutiques, Bucks and Does, which is a must-stop whenever Kyle and I stroll through Sunset Junction for coffee and inspiration. The first time we ever stopped in, we left astounded at not only the curated clothes, but also the highly stylized interiors that had notes of influence from a bohemian traveler's life. What I love most about Bucks and Does and what I seriously need to go back for right now is their custom line of wallpapers that Laura O'Dell designs, particularly this one of gold deer. Totally making it on our home design wishlist.
Love that dress, you look stunning!
Beautiful dress, love the floral print.