Yale Wire Rope Grips / Little Mule Grips are an ideal tool box accompaniment for the pulling and tensioning of wire rope and cabling.
Yale wire rope grips are also called the 'Little Mule grips' due to the fact that it is an extremely robust and hard working piece of equipment that no workman's tool box should be without. It is not like most other types of wire rope cable pullers in appearance or use. However the Yale cable grip is an excellent piece of equipment for pulling, tensioning or simply gripping any type of uncoated wire rope, with diameters up to 32mm.
As well as pulling and tensioning wire rope it is also capable of handling metal rods and cables in most forms up to a tensile strength of 1770 N/mm², though this depends on the rope's diameter and also the condition of its surface, i.e. grease free.
There is one special model – the 3000kg LMG II-X which can be used with wire ropes with a tensile strength up to 1960 N/mm², this is because it incorporates grooved jaws for better grip, though it will still be dependent on the condition and diameter of the rope.
Yale wire rope grips enable a non-slip grip on the rope due to its parallel jaws, they are designed NOT to cause damage to the wire rope.
There is a spring loaded guide present which will keep the little mule cable grip securely on the rope, it also enables quick releasing without the risk of jamming.
It is the responsibility of the person using these cable grips to make sure they choose the correct model for the grade of wire rope it is to be used on. Please consult the specifications tab to determine the correct model for your rope.


IPN ICSM 2018, will take place from 20 Apr to 22 Apr 2018.
IPN ICSM 2018 will be in Seoul, South Korea but the venue of the event is not determined yet.
4th Internatinal Conference on Strategic Management is organized annually.
Let Seoul must do holiday attractions make you fall in love with this city when you are there for IPN ICSM 2018. Here are the top notch things to do in Seoul!


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Twitter starts rolling out new paid subscription
Twitter began rolling out a controversial new paid subscription system on Saturday that the social network's unpredictable new owner, billionaire Elon Musk, ordered staff to build after taking over last week.
Days into the Tesla boss's stewardship of one of the world's leading platforms for discourse and activism, his promises and provocations are prompting a wave of reactions—including warnings from the United Nations and an apology from Twitter's co-founder.
His plan to dial back content moderation on the site is causing such concern that UN rights chief Volker Turk on Saturday urged him to make respect for human rights central to the social network.
"Twitter has a responsibility to avoid amplifying content that results in harms to people's rights," Turk said in his open letter.
Reports of Musk laying off the platform's entire human rights team were "not, from my perspective, an encouraging start," he said.
Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter in 2006 and stepped down as CEO last year, tweeted to apologize for growing the site too quickly a day after roughly half the company's 7,500 employees were fired by Musk.
"I realize many are angry with me," he wrote.
The remaining employees are witnessing an upheaval in their company's culture. As early as last Friday, Musk launched his first flagship project, the redesign of the Twitter Blue subscription option.
He has reportedly told his team the redesign must be ready for potential activation by November 7 — the day before the US midterm elections — or their jobs will be on the line.
'Sprint' to launch
On Saturday the platform's mobile app began offering an update that will allow users to sign up for the new version of Twitter Blue, which Musk has said will cost $8 a month and is set to grant users a blue checkmark and perks such as less advertising in their feeds.
"Starting today, we're adding great new features to Twitter Blue," says the update, only on iPhones for now. "Get Twitter Blue for $7.99 a month if you sign up now."
In a tweet, the California-based company's director of product development Esther Crawford specified that the new service had yet to go live.
"The new Blue isn't live yet—the sprint to our launch continues but some folks may see us making updates because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time," she posted.
The current version of the service, which costs $5, contains premium features, such as a more comfortable reading mode.
Musk wants to add a blue tick that until now has symbolized account verification, though he has not explained how the paying accounts will be verified.
Verification has been free and serves as proof of authenticity for the accounts of users such as governments, journalists, celebrities, and sports figures—a system put in place to prevent misinformation, but which Musk has derided as "lords & peasants."
The update also lists other benefits mentioned by Musk, such as the ability to post longer videos and audio messages, and fewer ads.
Ad spend suspended
The California-based company needs to diversify its income, heavily reliant on advertising.
And with concerns that Musk's tinkering with content moderation will flood the site with hate speech and misinformation, several advertisers have reportedly suspended their spending on the platform since he bought it.
Musk has insisted that content moderation remains a priority, that the rules had not changed, and that he would create a council dedicated to this task.
But he also blamed "activist groups" for pressuring advertisers.
"We did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They're trying to destroy free speech in America," he tweeted on Friday.
The social network is losing more than $4 million a day, he said, to justify the layoffs.
He promised Saturday that Twitter would evolve, with more convenient sharing and search tools, and ways to monetize content for creators.
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Making a cup of tea of coffee will never be the same again with our personalised 11oz standard white mug. Why not buy a mug for everyone in the office, your sports team or all your amazing bridesmaids? It will bring everyone together and is a regular reminder of shared memories. You can add text to your image to make it even more personal.


On March 10, the United States and a number of other nations will move their clocks forward one hour, as Daylight Saving Time begins. The spring time change can lead to (at minimum) fatigue and sluggishness due to losing an hour of sleep. But, how much money does it cost us? SleepBetter.org investigated, and created the Lost-Hour Economic Index. Using the table below, you can find out how much it costs in each of the top 360 metropolitan areas in the United States. Use the search feature to find out how much it costs in your area.
Note: Methodology for this index can be found below. Markets in Hawaii and a portion of Arizona are excluded, as they do not participate in Daylight Saving Time.
These are the findings of Chmura Economics & Analytics in a study entitled "Estimating the Economic Loss of Daylight Saving Time for U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas" commissioned by the Carpenter Co. The study focused on only the aspects of economic losses where solid evidence from peer-reviewed academic journals could be obtained, showing how the DST change can lead to an increase in heart attacks, workplace injuries in the mining and construction sectors, and increased cyberloafing that reduces productivity for people who typically work in offices. A reasonable economic cost was then developed from the economic costs of heart attacks, workplace accidents and cyberloafing and applied to the more than 300 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the U.S.


Two people explore the outdoors on a nature walk when it begins to rain. In their race to stay dry, they discover that they have a lot in common with the forest creatures around them… and they get a bit of help from them, too. Animation director Rosalie Benevello created the piece as a first year short at La Poudrière film school in Bourg lès Valence, France.
Next: The Diary of Ochibi, Game Over by PES, How do living things change their environments? and Symbiosis & a surprising tale of species cooperation.


Niraj Patel is the Chief Information Officer, Lending Platforms at IBM, and an executive member of the innovative IBM Mortgage Team specializing in delivering Watson, cognitive machine learning solutions, the cloud, big data, blockchain and evidence-based decisioning to transform the mortgage industry.
He is a senior business executive with a successful track record of uncovering a corporation's hidden value and opportunities to create long-term innovative solutions to increase market share profitability. His successful plans have included strategies to address organic growth, in-organic growth through acquisitions, investments, technology solutions and exit strategies.
Mr. Patel Co-Founded ISGN, is a Partner at Witmer LLC and Managing Director for the Musser Consulting Group. Mr. Patel works closely with diverse clients including single product firms, medium size firms targeting rapid growth and international conglomerates.
Previously he served as a founding member and Executive Vice President/CIO for GMAC Commercial Mortgage. As a member of the Executive Committee, he was a key contributor to the organization's international growth by consistently delivering double-digit net income growth reaching as high as $341.6 million annually, increasing loan originations from $2 to $29.9 billion, building loan servicing from $5 to $276 billion.


At Millfields Primary School we believe that the learning of a foreign language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for our pupils. It helps them to develop their ability to communicate, including key skills of speaking and listening and extends their knowledge of how language works. It provides excitement, enjoyment and challenge for children and teachers, helping to create enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. Learning another language gives children a new perspective on the world, encouraging them to understand their own cultures and those of others. The natural links between languages and other areas of the curriculum can enrich the overall teaching and learning experience.
All Key Stage 2 pupils are entitled to foreign language learning in school time. Millfields Primary School recognises the value of this initiative and will provides age-appropriate Primary Languages learning opportunities for all children in Years 3 – 6. The focus language taught in our school is Spanish.
· give an extra dimension to teaching and learning across the curriculum.
· memorise and recite short texts, and prepare and give a talk on a familiar subject confidently and with regard to the audience.
· write sentences and short texts independently and from memory.
· recognise and mistrust stereotypes, and understand and respect cultural diversity.
At Millfields Primary School we endeavour to integrate language learning into everyday school life, with teachers, teaching assistants and children using and experimenting with their knowledge of different languages whenever the opportunity arises. We foster a problem-solving approach, giving children opportunities to work out language use for themselves in a supportive context where risk-taking and creativity are encouraged, and there is an emphasis on having fun with the new language.
Although Primary Languages cuts across the curriculum, children are taught specific skills, concepts and vocabulary in a weekly dedicated lesson with the class teacher and teaching assistant.
Primary Languages teaching at Millfields Primary School is fully inclusive. No child is excluded by reason of a learning difficulty, or because they have English as an additional language. Experience has indeed shown that such children can derive particular benefit from taking part in Primary Languages learning activities in which they may be less disadvantaged than in other areas of the curriculum. It provides opportunities for EAL children to shine, to teach, model and share their bilingualism (or trilingual for some!). It can be a real celebration of their heritage. As well as raising self-esteem and confidence. Language learning activities are planned in such a way as to encourage the full and active participation of all pupils. Work is differentiated as appropriate to the needs of individual children. Pairs and groups for collaborative work may be made up in different ways, depending on the task.
Primary Languages is planned following the broad guidelines set out in the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages. The school's Scheme of Work (which is updated regularly) ensures that there is continuity and progression in both skills and content across all classes. Teachers collaborate over planning, sharing ideas for activities, resources and special events. Published resources including fiction and non-fiction texts, posters, CDs, DVDs and interactive computer software are available for use throughout the school.
Teachers and other staff are given opportunities and encouragement to develop their own language and language teaching skills, through in-school workshops. There are also opportunities to meet native speakers and in school and in their own countries through the school's International links. The subject leader for Primary Languages identifies school needs and circulates professional development opportunities.
Opportunities to monitor the children's progress in Primary Languages are built into our programmes of study. Most assessment is formative and is used to support teaching and learning and inform future planning. Assessments are based on observation of children working on different oral activities and (where appropriate) written product. For reporting purposes, pupil's attainments in listening, speaking, reading and writing are given levels based on the Languages Ladder descriptions).
Primary Languages gives us an ideal opportunity for making links outside school. We encourage children to share their experiences of visiting or living in other countries, and we welcome visiting speakers who are able to talk about life in the countries where the focus language is spoken.


A look into the AJF-PRSSA Chapter during the month of March.
short months, current seniors will move on to the next chapter in their lives.
Additionally, PRSSA welcomes its newly elected 2019-20 executive board!
Assistant Firm Director: Ciara Sikking March in our spring semester.
no idea what I was doing with my life. Keeping myself active and busy, I 2018-19 school year.
Novak!). I knew very little about PR and PRSSA, but I wanted to be more ing to opportunities intriguing to you.
tinues to help this organization grow. You may not realize it, but you could you begin these processes yourselves.
change the life of a lost college student like me. With that said, keep on keeping on!
We're almost finished the school year.
nesses" presented by Jane Dvorak, president of JKD & Company, Inc.
gives the impresion that you are serious and mean business. Connect with PRSSA!
we can add to their team.
nications, to interact with local professionals.
First impressions are everything. Dress accordingly based on the event, PR career!
everyday and how they got to where they are now.
wearing to the big event.
already in mind. You always want to ask strong and professional questions.
What type of internships did you have as a college student?
I hope these help make your speed networking worth while!
side the box and stand out amongst the crowd.
area, and they are here to help and guide us during our fledgling careers.
Don't be afraid to reach out to a professional like I did and ask for advice.
to an interview the following week.
Kelly and Jeremy recruiting potential AJF-PRSSA members!
something that would help me grow professionally and as a person.
Nina and some AJF-PRSSA friends!
as much as possible by attending every meeting and decorated for the events.
Went to Marco Island, FL!
I went to Italy and drank wine.
David (bottom right) and other future E-Board members!
I did nothing, with Ron.
Interested in writing for our next issue of PRomo?
ing, but I believe I have some useful tips to make it easier.
become a part of their team.
exactly what got you into the interview in the first place.
Unable to make a meeting?


The following short gospel, which was etched upon a parchment scroll and placed in a clay vase, was recently unearthed in a cave on the outskirts of Jerusalem. It was apparently written by an unnamed Roman soldier who was patrolling the area around 33 A.D., around the time of Passover, just after the Sabbath, on the first day of the week, just around sunrise ... Jerusalem time.
1. It was early on the morning after the Sabbath. I was on patrol, walking my beat down along Burial Ground Hill, near the tombs belonging to the family of Joseph of Arimathea, when I noticed a woman by the name of Mary Magdalene running toward me.
2. She seemed rather distraught and claimed that she had just visited the grave of one Jesus of Nazareth - to anoint his body with oils - when she discovered the tomb empty.
3. I investigated her claim, and did indeed discover the grave to be empty, save for some linens left there upon the hewn rock.
4. I then brought Ms. Magdalene downtown to the station to give official testimony, and then began my investigation by calling in four witnesses.
1. First I interrogated a fellow named Matthew, a former tax collector who had arrived in Jerusalem with this Jesus fellow to celebrate Passover.
2. After listing all of Jesus' ancestors, and who begot whom all the way back to the time of King David, Matthew finally arrived at the events of that morning after the Sabbath.
1. Next I interrogated a man named Mark, who though he was not present had heard the story from a friend of Jesus' named Peter, a/k/a "The Rock."
1. My final interview was with a fellow named John, a/k/a "The Beloved," who was an associate of Jesus and was nearby when he was crucified. Finally, a credible witness!
8. "They said to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord; and I know not where they have laid him."
9. "When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and she knew not that it was Jesus."
10. "Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?"
For a much better account of the resurrection, you may wish to consult the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Oh, and have a Happy Easter.


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Q: What does "<<" mean in PHP?
Possible Duplicate:
Reference - What does this symbol mean in PHP?

What does the << mean in this line of PHP?
$count = (1 << $count_log2) - 1;

A: this is the shift left operator.
so in your example you are shifting left the value 1 , $count_log2 times to the left.
so the value is 2^count_log2.
1 in 8 bit binary is 00000001
so if $count_log2 = 4, we need to get 2^4 = 16.
shifting left means moving the 1 left 4 times (since $count_log2 = 4).
lets do the steps.

*

*00000010  (2 in decimal)

*00000100  (4 in decimal)

*00001000  (8 in decimal)

*00010000  (16 in decimal)

so we got 2^4.
a common reason for using shift operation is that it takes less time for the processor to do a shift operation than using multiplication.

A: Left Bitshift, http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php

A: It is a left bitshift operator. See the Bitwise Operators page of the PHP manual.
To quote the manual:

$a << $b - Shift left - Shift the bits of $a $b steps to the left (each step means "multiply by two")

In this specific case, $count = (1 << $count_log2) - 1 is the same as setting $count to pow(2, $count_log2) - 1

A: << and >> are the so-called bitshift operator.
x << n shifts the bits in the integer x n places to the left, effectively multiplying x with 2 to the power of n.
Similarly x >> n shifts to the left, dividing x by 2 to the power of n.

A: The << and >> are called Bitwise operators, they shift left and right respectively by a certain number of bits.
In your example:
1 << $count_log2 will shift the number 1 left by the value of $count_log2.  This is easier to see in binary where the number 1 represented as an 8-bit number would be:
1 - 0000 0001

If you shift this number left by 3 (1 << 3) you would get 8:
8 - 0000 1000

A: Shift left or shift right. See the manual on bitwise operators.

A: Its a bitwise operator for shifting bits to the left, this is not just php but many languages use this for if binary manipulation
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php

A: << is shift left operator in PHP
$a << $b means shift the bits of $a  $b steps to the left (each step means "multiply by two")

A: '>>' and '<<' are bitwise operators.
'>>' shifts to the right, and '<<' shifts to the left.
Think of it like this, in binary 25 is 00011001.
if you performed a shift left on 25, you'd have 00110010, which is 50.
If you performed a shift right on 50, you'd have 25.

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About Conference PULSUS cordially invites all the researchers, academicians, students and business professionals in the field of STD, HIV/AIDS from all over the world to "2nd International Conference on Sexually Transmitted Diseases" slated on August 20-21, 2018 at Toronto, Canada which includes prompt keynote presentations, Workshops, Oral talks, Poster presentations and Exhibitions.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are infectious diseases that are transmitted from a person to another through sexual contact or blood of an infected person. The pathogens such as bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa are responsible for the disease transmission. Bacterial STDs are Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Chancroid. Viral STDs include HIV/AIDS, Human papillomavirus, Hepatitis, Genital Herpes. Trichomoniasis is a STD caused by parasitic protozoan. Candidiasis is considered to be an fungal STD which is spread by fungus Candida albicans. Most of the sexually transmitted diseases such as viral STDs have no cure but the disease can be controlled with proper treatment while bacterial, fungal and protozoan STDs can be cured with antifungals and antibiotics.
The evolution of the disease pathogens are caused by the selective pressures of the host immune response, modern drugs, vaccines or by microbial competition. Through evolutionary phase, a pathogen can become more or less virulent. The phylogeny, epidemiology and origin studies on sexually transmitted diseases provides valuable data on the genetic transition traits in both host and pathogen. The evolutionary study of the disease causing pathogen provides the disease transmission and diversity among the human population. The clinical epidemiology and phylogenetic study paves way for new insights for the development of drugs and therapies against the multiple drug resistant strains.
The immune system helps in elimination of the invading microbial pathogens in the body through a series of defense mechanism. The innate immune response of the body provides first line of defense against the pathogens which is fast and non-specific response while adaptive immune response is specific and slow. The study of immunopathogenesis allows us to explore the disease transmission process, pathogen-host interactions, immune defense against the STD pathogens. This allows us to understand the pathological condition and progression of the disease and also the genetic factors influencing the immune defense against STD transmission. The genetic factors influence can be used for the development of gene therapies that triggers immune reaction against the disease causing pathogens in the body.
Antibiotics are used for treating the STDs caused by bacteria and protozoa. The bacterial STDs can be cured if the infection is properly diagnosed and treated. Several antibiotic resistant strains of pathogens have developed which pose a serious threat for health of the STD affected individuals. For viral STDs, there are no complete cure but progression of the disease can be controlled by antiretroviral therapies which use multiple antiretroviral drugs to decrease the disease proliferation and reduce other opportunistic infections. Gene therapy involves gene editing approaches which can provide a better and safer alternative to other existing drugs. Novel and emerging treatment strategies can provide a solution for the increasing drug resistance in the pathogens.
STDs are transmitted from a person to another through sexual contact or blood transfusions from an infected person or needle sharing, or from mother to infant during pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding. STDs can be prevented through vaccination, screening and through promoting safer sexual behavior, early health-care seeking behavior, prevention and care activities. Pregnant women affected with STD must take proper treatment to prevent the vertical transmission of STD. Most STDs cannot be cured and leads to infertility, birth defects in infants, co-infections, opportunistic infections and many other health issues.
Diagnosis of STDs are done by serological assays, amplification techniques, immunological diagnosis attains a accurate result of the diagnosis. Point-of-care test enables rapid screening of Syphilis and allows treatment without delay. Nucleic acid amplification testsmonitor the infection trends and helps in the adaptation of treatment protocols. Drug-resistance test provides the provisions for identifying drug resistance in the STDs which aids in overcoming the resistance and provide a better treatment. Further improvements in the diagnosis method can help in rapid and cost-effective method for screening of the disease.
Drug development and research is the development and invention of new drugs and improvement of existing drugs. Continuous progress in drug development and research field is necessary for invention of new drugs and drug targets. Identification of the drug target is the basis of the drug development process, this can be done through various computational approaches. Gene editing technology such as CRISPR seeks to eliminate the latent as well active HIV infection in the human which would be more effective in the treatment of AIDS. Various viral inhibitors such as entry inhibitors, maturation inhibitors are designed to inhibit the replication of the virus inside the host cell.
A highly effective method for controlling infectious diseases is vaccination, it helps in prevention of high risk health issues. Prophylactic vaccines are those used for prevention while therapeutic vaccines are used for treatment of the specific disease. Sexually transmitted diseases are spread by pathogens such as bacteria, virus, fungi and protozoa. Many viral STDs doesn't have cure hence preventing the infection through vaccination is a best method. Vaccines are developed for Hepatitis and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and for HIV and Herpes virus vaccines are being developed. Vaccination is the primary solution for eradication of sexually transmitted diseases in human.
Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of structures that are 1–100 nm in size. Nanomedicine is a branch of medicine which is employed in preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Using nanoparticles, effective timely release of drugs to the infected areas/organs are possible which improves specificity of drug action. HIV/AIDS patients face a major problem where the virus resides in latent reservoirs makes it hard to reach for drugs. Nanoparticles has the ability to travel through the body with less interruption which aids in effective release of drugs at HIV virus reservoirs at the specific target. Therapeutic nanoparticles have higher specificity for the drug targets which enhances the treatment efficiency and better cure for the affected individual.
Plants contain a wide range of substances that are used for treating chronic as well as acute infectious diseases. Many modern drugs in use have been developed from the medicinal plants which has been used by indigenous people. Phytochemicals are chemicals secreted by plants that have disease preventive properties that is used by the plants to protect itself from diseases. Antimicrobial activity of the plant sources can act as a better drug for the strains that has developed multiple drug resistance to antibiotics. Many bacterial STDs can be combated using phytochemicals produced by the medicinal plants. Pharmacological effects of the bio active compounds in the plants must be explored to produce a cure for the multiple drug resistant bacterial STDs.
The infectious pathogens mutate under certain circumstances to overcome the pressure inflicted upon them. Such organisms develop resistance to the drug in use. This proves to be a major problem in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Human immunodeficiency virus has developed resistance to the antiretroviral drug provided. Hence combination antiretroviral therapies are used for treating AIDS which involves using two or more antiretroviral drugs together. Several bacterial species has also developed resistance to the antibiotics provided for the treatment. The mutation of the pathogens has led to development of drug resistance against many antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs.
Sexually transmitted disease increases the risk of being affected by cancer. Among the STDs which lead to cancer, human papillomavirus infection is found to cause cervical cancer in women and penile cancer in men. It is also responsible for the development of oropharyngeal cancer in both sexes. Untreated STDs has a higher risk for leading to development of cancer. The progression of cancer in people affected by STD must be analyzed to understand the causative agents of the cancer.
Gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis cause immune reactions which leads to inflammation that can easily be infected with HIV. Co-infection is a condition where a person actively infected with STD is infected with another STD. when a STI infected individual is prone to another infection due to immune compromise they are less able to mount a protective response against sexually transmitted pathogens. Treating co-infected individuals can be challenging and the treatment methods must be analyzed and modified to their needs.
When an STD infection is left untreated in women, it may be lead to pelvic inflammatory disease. Being affected by pelvic inflammatory disease may lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy in pregnant women. When the mother is infected by STD, the fetus or new born is mostly infected. STDs during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, birth defects including blindness, deafness, bone deformities, and intellectual disability, stillbirth, premature birth. In males, reduced fertility or infertility is most common side effect of the disease.
Vertical STD transmission is the process of transfer of STD from a mother to infant perinatally or postnatally. During delivery, when the baby passes through the infected canal, it can contract the STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes from the infected mother. Syphilis and HIV can be contracted from the mother during fetus development. Postnatal transmission of the disease is possible through breastfeeding the baby. Vertical STD transmission poses serious threat to the health of the baby.
Sexually transmitted diseases are an important cause of morbidity in paediatric patients. The transmission occurs via transplacental, intrapartum, and postpartum exposure. When an infant contracts disease from mother, it can affect the skin, eyes, mouth, central nervous system, and can also lead to organ failure. With treatment, the chances of transmitting HIV from mother to infant is low. Proper awareness, treatment and diagnosis is needed to prevent the transmission of STDs among young people.
Multimorbidities is the presence of two or more chronic diseases at the same time. Super infection or re-infection is the condition where a person with HIV infection acquires infection with the sub-type of HIV. Re-infection affects the treatment which can deteriorate the health of the affected individual. The STD affected individual suffers from other social and emotional complicationswhich may also have adverse effects in the health of the individual. Multiple morbidities associated with the disease causes more damage to the health as the immune system would be compromised by the STD.
Educational and awareness programs must be conducted to improve the public knowledge about the sexually transmitted diseases. People affected by sexually transmitted diseases have dramatically increased, millions of people are affected by the disease due to lack of awareness. Public must be aware about the impact of STDs on the lives of the affected people and the importance of preventing, screening and treating STDs. Poor knowledge about the STDs lead to increased health issues such as ectopic pregnancies, infertility and other complications. It is a major health issue that affects mostly young people, not only in developing countries but in developed countries also.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are widespread infectious diseases which is transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact or blood. This disease is caused by microbial pathogens such as bacteria, virus, fungi and protozoans. The bacterial STDs such as Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Chancroid are by bacteria and they can be cured with antibiotics. The viral STDs infections cannot be cured but can be kept under control by treatment such as antiretroviral combination therapy. Several viral STDs are HIV/AIDS, Human papillomavirus, Hepatitis, Genital Herpes. Candidiasis caused by Candida albicans is a type of fungal STD which can be treated with antifungals. STDs are transmitted from a person to another through sexual contact or blood transfusions from an infected person or needle sharing, or from mother to infant during pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding.
Most STDs cannot be cured and leads to infertility, birth defects in infants, co-infections, opportunistic infections and many other health issues. To prevent the disease transmission proper screening and diagnosis must be done. Different diagnostic methods are available which provides rapid diagnosis results. Point-of-care test, nucleic acid amplification tests, serological assays, amplification techniques, immunological diagnosis are several methods which are in use for screening for STDs. Pre-Exposure vaccination is available for hepatitis and human papillomavirus which helps in the prevention of the disease. Vaccination is the primary solution for the eradication of disease. People affected by sexually transmitted diseases have dramatically increased, millions of people are affected by the disease due to lack of awareness. Educational and awareness programs must be conducted to improve the public knowledge about the sexually transmitted diseases.
Sexually transmitted diseases are a global level health issue with ongoing research and development for therapies and drug for prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. STDs cause serious health complications such as infertility in both men and women, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, stillbirth, neurologic damage, cancer and high morbidity in adults. There are about 20 million new STD infections each year. As per WHO report in 2015, about 1.1 billion people had sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV/AIDS. About 500 million people were infected with either chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis or trichomoniasis. At least 250 million women suffering from human papillomavirus while 530 million case find with genital herpes. Physicians and health-care providers play a key role in prevention and treatment of STDs. The worldwide STD diagnostic market was valued at over USD 100.0 billion in 2014. The advancements in STD diagnostic technologies offers more precise test results which contributes to the rise in the market value of STD diagnostics industry. Low voluntary screening rate for sexually transmitted diseases is a major restrain for this market. STDs diagnostic market was USD 103.20 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach around USD 166.50 by 2021, growing at a CAGR of about 8.3% between 2015 and 2021.
Among various therapies, the generally used modern treatment for STDs are antibiotics. The global STD drug market is expected to show constant growth due to the high prevalence of sexually transmitted disease in recent years. The high health risk associated with the disease increases the need for diagnosis, prevention and treatment for the sexually transmitted diseases. The patient's willingness to opt for advanced treatment will boost the global drug market value of the sexually transmitted diseases. Improvement in the health-care worldwide and rising per capita income are the major components which drives the health-care reform supporting STD diagnostic industry growth. HPV infections constitute 5,00,000 cases/year of which 80% are reportedly from developing countries. The rise in incidence of various infections such as syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, human papillomavirus, herpes simplex virus, chancroid and trichomoniasis is expected to increase the demand for drugs globally. Companies playing major role in the global sexually transmitted diseases drug market are Pfizer INC, Hoffmann La Roche, Bayer Healthcare, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. AbbVie, Inc., Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, and Merck & Co., Inc.
Canada and the United States are the economically wealthiest and most developed nations in the continent. Canada is the third most populous country with 32,623,490. Canada shows remarkable growth in the sectors of services, mining and manufacturing. Canada's per capita GDP was estimated at $44,656 and it had the 11th largest GDP in 2014. Canada's services sector comprises 78% of the country's GDP in 2010, industry comprises 20% and agriculture comprises 2%. It is highly urbanized with 82 percent of the 35.15 million people living in large and medium-sized cities, many people living near the southern border. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, and the three largest metropolitan cities in Canada are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. With 2,731,571 residents in 2016, it is the largest city in Canada and fourth largest city in North America by population. Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. The global sexually transmitted diseases drug market is segmented into five regions geographically as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East and Africa. Among them, North America has leading market value and is estimated to gain more market shares from other regions by 2025. North America has emerged as the largest shareholder in the global sexually transmitted diseases drug market in 2016. The STD drug market growth of North America is attributed to its well established industries and advanced diagnosis and treatment facilities.
TRACK CATEGORIES The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.
Track 1 : Types of STDs Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are infectious diseases that are transmitted from a person to another through sexual contact or blood of an infected person. The pathogens such as bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa are responsible for the disease transmission. Bacterial STDs are Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, Chancroid. Viral STDs include HIV/AIDS, Human papillomavirus, Hepatitis, Genital Herpes. Trichomoniasis is a STD caused by parasitic protozoan. Candidiasis is considered to be a fungal STD which is spread by fungus Candida albicans. Most of the sexually transmitted diseases such as viral STDs have no cure, but the disease can be controlled with proper treatment while bacterial, fungal and protozoan STDs can be cured with antifungals and antibiotics.
The evolution of the disease pathogens is caused by the selective pressures of the host immune response, modern drugs, vaccines or by microbial competition. Through evolutionary phase, a pathogen can become virulent. The phylogeny, epidemiology and origin studies on sexually transmitted diseases provides valuable data on the genetic transition traits in both host and pathogen. The evolutionary study of the disease-causing pathogen provides the disease transmission and diversity among the human population. The clinical epidemiology and phylogenetic study paves way for new insights for the development of drugs and therapies against the multiple drug resistant strains.
Track 3 : Immunopathogenesis The immune system helps in elimination of the invading microbial pathogens in the body through a series of defense mechanism. The innate immune response of the body provides first line of defense against the pathogens which is fast and non-specific response while adaptive immune response is specific and slow. The study of immunopathogenesis allows us to explore the disease transmission process, pathogen-host interactions, immune defense against the STD pathogens. This allows us to understand the pathological condition and progression of the disease and the genetic factors influencing the immune defense against STD transmission. The genetic factors influence can be used for the development of gene therapies that triggers immune reaction against the disease-causing pathogens in the body.
Track 4 : Treatment Strategies Antibiotics are used for treating the STDs caused by bacteria and protozoa. The bacterial STDs can be cured if the infection is properly diagnosed and treated. Several antibiotic resistant strains of pathogens have developed which pose a serious threat for health of the STD affected individuals. For viral STDs, there are no complete cure, but progression of the disease can be controlled by antiretroviral therapies which use multiple antiretroviral drugs to decrease the disease proliferation and reduce other opportunistic infections. Gene therapy involves gene editing approaches which can provide a better and safer alternative to other existing drugs. Novel and emerging treatment strategies can provide a solution for the increasing drug resistance in the pathogens.
Track 5 : STDs Prevention STDs are transmitted from a person to another through sexual contact or blood transfusions from an infected person or needle sharing, or from mother to infant during pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding. STDs can be prevented through vaccination, screening and through promoting safer sexual behaviour, early health-care seeking behavior, prevention and care activities. Pregnant women affected with STD must take proper treatment to prevent the vertical transmission of STD. Most STDs cannot be cured and leads to infertility, birth defects in infants, co-infections, opportunistic infections and many other health issues.
Track 6 : Advanced Diagnostic Tools Diagnosis of STDs are done by serological assays, amplification techniques, immunological diagnosis attains a accurate result of the diagnosis. Point-of-care test enables rapid screening of Syphilis and allows treatment without delay. Nucleic acid amplification tests monitor the infection trends and helps in the adaptation of treatment protocols. Drug-resistance test provides the provisions for identifying drug resistance in the STDs which aids in overcoming the resistance and provide a better treatment. Further improvements in the diagnosis method can help in rapid and cost-effective method for screening of the disease.
Track 7 : Drug Development and Research Drug development and research is the development and invention of new drugs and improvement of existing drugs. Continuous progress in drug development and research field is necessary for invention of new drugs and drug targets. Identification of the drug target is the basis of the drug development process, this can be done through various computational approaches. Gene editing technology such as CRISPR seeks to eliminate the latent as well active HIV infection in the human which would be more effective in the treatment of AIDS. Various viral inhibitors such as entry inhibitors, maturation inhibitors are designed to inhibit the replication of the virus inside the host cell.
Track 8 : Vaccines Development A highly effective method for controlling infectious diseases is vaccination, it helps in prevention of high risk health issues. Prophylactic vaccines are those used for prevention while therapeutic vaccines are used for treatment of the specific disease. Sexually transmitted diseases are spread by pathogens such as bacteria, virus, fungi and protozoa. Many viral STDs doesn't have cure hence preventing the infection through vaccination is a best method. Vaccines are developed for Hepatitis and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and for HIV and Herpes virus vaccines are being developed. Vaccination is the primary solution for eradication of sexually transmitted diseases in human.
Track 9 : Nanotechnology in HIV Treatment Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of structures that are 1–100 nm in size. Nanomedicine is a branch of medicine which is employed in preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Using nanoparticles, effective timely release of drugs to the infected areas/organs are possible which improves specificity of drug action. HIV/AIDS patients face a major problem where the virus resides in latent reservoirs makes it hard to reach for drugs. Nanoparticles has the ability to travel through the body with less interruption which aids in effective release of drugs at HIV virus reservoirs at the specific target. Therapeutic nanoparticles have higher specificity for the drug targets which enhances the treatment efficiency and better cure for the affected individual.
Track 10 : Phytochemicals in STDs Treatment Plants contain a wide range of substances that are used for treating chronic as well as acute infectious diseases. Many modern drugs in use have been developed from the medicinal plants which has been used by indigenous people. Phytochemicals are chemicals secreted by plants that have disease preventive properties that is used by the plants to protect itself from diseases. Antimicrobial activity of the plant sources can act as a better drug for the strains that has developed multiple drug resistance to antibiotics. Many bacterial STDs can be combated using phytochemicals produced by the medicinal plants. Pharmacological effects of the bio active compounds in the plants must be explored to produce a cure for the multiple drug resistant bacterial STDs.
Track 11 : Drug Resistance and Mutation The infectious pathogens mutate under certain circumstances to overcome the pressure inflicted upon them. Such organisms develop resistance to the drug in use. This proves to be a major problem in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Human immunodeficiency virus has developed resistance to the antiretroviral drug provided. Hence combination antiretroviral therapies are used for treating AIDS which involves using two or more antiretroviral drugs together. Several bacterial species have also developed resistance to the antibiotics provided for the treatment. The mutation of the pathogens has led to development of drug resistance against many antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs.
Track 12 : STDs and Cancer Sexually transmitted disease increases the risk of being affected by cancer. Among the STDs which lead to cancer, human papillomavirus infection is found to cause cervical cancer in women and penile cancer in men. It is also responsible for the development of oropharyngeal cancer in both sexes. Untreated STDs has a higher risk for leading to development of cancer. The progression of cancer in people affected by STD must be analyzed to understand the causative agents of the cancer.
Track 13 : Co-Infection of STDs Gonorrhoea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis cause immune reactions which leads to inflammation that can easily be infected with HIV. Co-infection is a condition where a person actively infected with STD is infected with another STD. when a STI infected individual is prone to another infection due to immune compromise they are less able to mount a protective response against sexually transmitted pathogens. Treating co-infected individuals can be challenging and the treatment methods must be analyzed and modified to their needs.
Track 14 : Infertility and Birth Defects When an STD infection is left untreated in women, it may be lead to pelvic inflammatory disease. Being affected by pelvic inflammatory disease may lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy in pregnant women. When the mother is infected by STD, the fetus or new born is mostly infected. STDs during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, birth defects including blindness, deafness, bone deformities, and intellectual disability, stillbirth, premature birth. In males, reduced fertility or infertility is most common side effect of the disease.
Track 15 : Vertical STD Transmission Vertical STD transmission is the process of transfer of STD from a mother to infant perinatally or postnatally. During delivery, when the baby passes through the infected canal, it can contract the STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes from the infected mother. Syphilis and HIV can be contracted from the mother during fetus development. Postnatal transmission of the disease is possible through breastfeeding the baby. Vertical STD transmission poses serious threat to the health of the baby.
Track 16 : Paediatric STDs Sexually transmitted diseases are an important cause of morbidity in paediatric patients. The transmission occurs via transplacental, intrapartum, and postpartum exposure. When an infant contracts disease from mother, it can affect the skin, eyes, mouth, central nervous system, and can also lead to organ failure. With treatment, the chances of transmitting HIV from mother to infant is low. Proper awareness, treatment and diagnosis is needed to prevent the transmission of STDs among young people.
Track 17 : Multimorbidities and Complications Multimorbidities are the presence of two or more chronic diseases at the same time. Super infection or re-infection is the condition where a person with HIV infection acquires infection with the sub-type of HIV. Re-infection affects the treatment which can deteriorate the health of the affected individual. The STD affected individual suffers from other social and emotional complications which may also have adverse effects in the health of the individual. Multiple morbidities associated with the disease causes more damage to the health as the immune system would be compromised by the STD.
Track 18 : Public Awareness and Knowledge of STDs Educational and awareness programs must be conducted to improve the public knowledge about the sexually transmitted diseases. People affected by sexually transmitted diseases have dramatically increased, millions of people are affected by the disease due to lack of awareness. Public must be aware about the impact of STDs on the lives of the affected people and the importance of preventing, screening and treating STDs. Poor knowledge about the STDs lead to increased health issues such as ectopic pregnancies, infertility and other complications. It is a major health issue that affects mostly young people, not only in developing countries but in developed countries also.


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My latest play, "Miss Keller's Second Book," was announced as a finalist in Chicago's Route 66 "Test Drive" New Play Workshop today, and I'm so happy about it! I was just working on a new draft of this one, and it's so encouraging to get this kind of validation to keep working on it.
Route 66 Theatre Company introduces, develops, produces, and exports new work for the stage that embrace the American spirit of exploration and risk.
Here's the synopsis for "Miss Keller's Second Book:"
It's been nearly 50 years since the notoriously reclusive Agnes Keller published her first and only book. Now, with her protective sister recently deceased, Agnes must face the pressures from outside her small sanctuary as she grapples with the inevitability of change, the tangled tethers of family, and the question of an artist's obligation to the world.
Many thanks to Literary Manager Frances Limoncelli and everyone at Route 66 Theatre Company!


Potassium silicate is the ratio of silica to potassium oxide. They are designed in such a way to meet the desired requirements of a wide range. Products are available as water solutions or in solid form as glass-like flakes.
Potassium silicate glass is a colorless super cooled melt of potassium carbonate and pure silica sand. It is free flowing if stored in the original drum after opening. It is slightly hygroscopic. Potassium silicate solutions are prepared by dissolving potassium silicate glass in hot water. This solution produces different products having different properties.


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by Greg Hambrick June 28, 2007
Here's the wrap:
• Toxic toothpaste in U.S. prisons. And to think they were worried about dropping the soap.
• Another day in Iraq:
Twenty decapitated bodies were found today in a predominantly Sunni village southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. The grisly discovery was made on a bloody day across Iraq. A car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 40 others in a busy intersection in the mostly Shiite Bayaa district in Baghdad today. And the casualty count from an attack on Wednesday in Kadhimiya, another Shiite neighborhood, rose to 10 dead and 17 wounded.
• Off the endangered species list, the bald eagles are having a much better day.
• Supreme Court expels race as a factor in student placements.
• Immigration legislation dies. Heck, if you try to fix the system, what's going to drive out the base come election day? And, I'm talking to both parties here.
• Get your geek on — iPhone goes on sale Friday.
• Spice Girls are back for a world tour. Hell, if Sanjaya's got a fan base, there's still hope for the Spice Middle-Aged Women.
• A woman apparently tries to shoot her husband in the head while he's sleeping. Things didn't go quite right:
Her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head. St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple's story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said. Moylan, 45, woke up at 4:30 a.m. and thought he had suffered an aneurism or that his wife had elbowed him in his sleep, authorities said.


Graduation season is upon us and it's got me feeling all nostalgic about university.
Most of the time, I'm pretty happy about being a working lady. I don't miss the stress of exams or the painful boredom of pulling a library all nighter to finish that 5000 word essay. When I remember how mouldy our old student houses were it makes me squirm, and I quite like having a bit of disposable income to blow on ASOS shoes and fancy homeware.
But every now and then I get a pang for the good ol' days of student-dom. Because even though being a student comes hand in hand with being skint and hormonal and a bit gross, it's still an absolute freaking ball.
1) The absolute bliss of being able to have an afternoon nap every single day and not being judged for it.
2) The outfit possibilities of living with a house full of girls – so much untapped wardrobe potential!
3) Lazing about on the sofa with your housemates indulging your hangover and filling in the blanks from the previous night.
4) Being able to have an amazing night out for less than £20, including your taxis and club entry. How was that even possible?!
5) Free McDonald's cheeseburgers. Preferably consumed at 4.30am, post-club kicking out.
6) 0% interest student overdrafts. Until you realised that actually, you have to give that money back. Sad face.
7) Student discount. Making everything in Topshop seem slightly more affordable.
8) Never missing a parcel delivery because you had nowhere more important to be at 2pm in the afternoon on a Tuesday.
9) Being able to spend 4 hours getting ready for a night out and then an extra 3 hours pre-drinking.
10) Spending the whole day in the pub beer garden as soon as the sun made an appearance.
11) Binge watching TV shows and chick flicks for days on end.
12) Being able to go shopping at the quietest times – hello no Primark changing rooms queue!
13) Being able to legitimately wear comfy trackies all day without people thinking you were homeless.
14) Taking a million photos on nights out and laughing hysterically at them the next day.
15) A hangover being a legitimate reason to cancel the day and stay in bed with ALL of the snacks.
16) Lie ins. Cause everyone knows that once you get a 9-5 job its impossible to sleep past 7am.
17) Three month summers. We totally didn't appreciate those babies enough at the time.
18) The acceptability of alcopops. So cheap and delicious (until the next morning when your mouth feels like it's been line with fur).
19) Going to clubs that only play cheesy 90s hits. Because no one can feel bad while dancing to B*witched.
20) Having a communal fancy dress box. Because you never know when you're going to need a cape or a high vis jacket.
21) Feeling so intelligent and studious after handing in your dissertation. Like, I don't want to brag or anything, but am I THE cleverest person ever?!


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Petition To Free Innocent Man Serving 25 Years – Jace Washington
A MAN TRAPPED IN THE SHACKLES OF PROSECUTORIAL TACTICS DESIGNED TO SECURE A CONVICTION : JACE WASHINGTON.
UNDERSTAND HOW FUNDAMENTALLY UNFAIR THE FELONY MURDER RULE IS.
BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH V. STUART
Brigham City, Utah v. Stuart, 547 U.S. 398 (2006) :
Officers who responded to a disturbance in a house entered the house without a warrant. Before entering the house, officers witnessed a violent altercation between adults in the house and a juvenile. Officers arrested and charged the adults with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile among other things. The adults argued that the officers entry into the home without the warrant violated their fourth amendment rights.
Held: Officers entry into the home without a warrant did not violate the fourth amendment because officers had an objectively readable basis to believe that an occupant in the house my be injured or they may need to prevent occupants from imminent injury. Also the subjective motivation of the officers for entering the house is irrelevant.
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In the early morning hours of July 23, 2000, at about 3 a.m., four police officers responded to a call regarding a loud party at a residence. Upon arriving at the house, they heard shouting from inside, and proceeded down the driveway to investigate.
There, they observed two juveniles drinking beer in the backyard. They entered the backyard, and saw—through a screen door and windows—an altercation taking place in the kitchen of the home. According to the testimony of one of the officers, four adults were attempting, with some difficulty, to restrain a juvenile. The juvenile eventually "broke free, swung a fist and struck one of the adults in the face." The officer testified that he observed the victim of the blow spitting blood into a nearby sink.
The other adults continued to try to restrain the juvenile, pressing him up against a refrigerator with such force that the refrigerator began moving across the floor. At this point, an officer opened the screen door and announced the officers' presence. Amid the tumult, nobody noticed. The officer entered the kitchen and again cried out, and as the occupants slowly became aware that the police were on the scene, the altercation ceased.
The officers subsequently arrested the adults and charged them with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, disorderly conduct, and intoxication. In the trial court, the defendants filed a motion to suppress all evidence obtained after the officers entered the home, arguing that the warrantless entry violated the Fourth Amendment.
Whether the officers warrantless entry into the defendants' home was reasonable under the circumstances.
Where officers have objectively reasonable basis to believe that an injured person might need help, it is reasonable under the fourth amendment for the officers to enter a premise without a warrant, to render aid to an injured occupant or protect an occupant from imminent injury.
APPLICATION / ANALYSIS
The court explained that, It is a basic principle of Fourth Amendment law that searches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable. Nevertheless, because the ultimate touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is "reasonableness," the warrant requirement is subject to certain exceptions.
One exigency obviating the requirement of a warrant is the need to assist persons who are seriously injured or threatened with such injury. The need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise be illegal absent an exigency or emergency. Accordingly, law enforcement officers may enter a home without a warrant to render emergency assistance to an injured occupant or to protect an occupant from imminent injury.
The defendants conceded to this rule but they however argued that the officers were more interested in making arrests than quelling violence. They urge us to consider, in assessing the reasonableness of the entry, whether the officers were indeed motivated primarily by a desire to save lives and property.
But the court disagreed:
The court explained that the subjective motives of the officers were irrelevant.
The court stated that our cases have repeatedly rejected this approach. An action is "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment, regardless of the individual officer's state of mind, as long as the circumstances, viewed objectively, justify the action. The officer's subjective motivation is irrelevant.
Next the defendants argued that their conduct was not serious enough to justify the officers' intrusion into the home.
But again the court disagreed with them.
The court explained that we think the officers' entry here was plainly reasonable under the circumstances. The officers were responding, at 3 o'clock in the morning, to complaints about a loud party. As they approached the house, they could hear from within an altercation occurring, some kind of a fight. It was loud and it was tumultuous. The officers heard thumping and crashing and people yelling "stop, stop" and "get off me." As the trial court found, "it was obvious that … knocking on the front door" would have been futile. The noise seemed to be coming from the back of the house. And after looking in the front window and seeing nothing, the officers proceeded around back to investigate further. They found two juveniles drinking beer in the backyard.
From there, they could see that a fracas was taking place inside the kitchen. A juvenile, fists clenched, was being held back by several adults. As the officers watch, he breaks free and strikes one of the adults in the face, sending the adult to the sink spitting blood.
In these circumstances, the officers had an objectively reasonable basis for believing both that the injured adult might need help and that the violence in the kitchen was just beginning. Nothing in the Fourth Amendment required them to wait until another blow rendered someone unconscious or semi-conscious or worse before entering. The role of a peace officer includes preventing violence and restoring order, not simply rendering first aid to casualties.
The manner of the officers' entry was also reasonable. After witnessing the punch, one of the officers opened the screen door and "yelled in police." When nobody heard him, he stepped into the kitchen and announced himself again. Only then did the tumult subside. The officer's announcement of his presence was at least equivalent to a knock on the screen door. Indeed, it was probably the only option that had even a chance of rising above the din. Under these circumstances, there was no violation of the Fourth Amendment's knock-and-announce rule. Furthermore, once the announcement was made, the officers were free to enter; it would serve no purpose to require them to stand dumbly at the door awaiting a response while those within brawled on, oblivious to their presence.
The officers entry into the house without a warrant was reasonable because the officer had an objectively reasonable basis to believe that occupants in the house may need aid.
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Lol... Yes... I will(shamefully) admit I play Runescape :p I have since classic 10 years ago. I played up until they came out with that abomination, "Evolution of Combat".
But I got back into it because my roommate has a horrible attention span and interest level with most games, but can still get into RS :p So we're playing RS2 together(the one from back in '07, the good one).
How is it different than other games of the genre?
Don't, it will steal your soul and not give it back. lol.
@Drazex wrote: How is it different than other games of the genre?
If you're talking the '07 Runescape, quite a bit was different. For the 'evolution of combat', nothing is.
The basic skills premise is a bit different than most MMOs and is centered around grinding quite a bit. You have a buuunch of skills, and every time you use them you get experience and it levels. The more you level, the more fun stuff you can do with the skill.
Certain quests have skill requirements, as do armor and weapons and stuff.
After awhile, weapons get specials you can activate with a bar that goes up a bit. Otherwise combat is pretty standard. You select Thrust(attack) swing(strength) or what have you to train a skill type and you bash away at the enemy and so does he til one of you die. But there are prayers you can activate, potions to take, spells to use etc that make combat more interesting. The specials add more flair to it as well.
The combat was a large thing making RS unique, as well as the skill system. The 'evolution of combat' added abilities, cool down timers and a hot bar. They made it way easier, too, and it just turned to poop.
But the 07 RS is actually pretty good. It is pretty unique for an MMO with the skill and battle system and there's a lot to uncover and stuff.
Interesting. The premise of leveling skills by using them sounds a lot like Elder Scrolls, lol.
And this is different from most MMO's how...?
@Drazex wrote: Interesting. The premise of leveling skills by using them sounds a lot like Elder Scrolls, lol.
Ooooh, that's a good point. Maybe that was one of the things that drew me in to it.
@Drazex wrote: And this is different from most MMO's how...?
The way its gone about is different. Of course all MMOs have grinding and all that. But Runescape is like unabashedly open about it. From the start, you see all the level 1 skills that can be level 100. It shows you the level progress, exp to next level etc all in numbers. As you level, you see the exp is exponentially increasing in what's needed. So getting to 100 in any skill is a pretty ridiculous feat.
Most other games hide the grinding behind flashy stuff. RS has the flash, too. But it's very numbers-oriented as well.
I played Runescape. Main things I remember are chopping down trees, fishing, and...I think I remember spending a lot of time on a farm?
To be honest while I played Runescape for awhile Flyff was my MMORPG of choice. Have not played that one either for quite a while now.
I saw Flyff, but it didn't look very good lol. Back in the day I played some Maple Story, and Ragnarok Online. There were a bunch of random MMOs as well. Some newer ones are like AdventureQuest Worlds(soon to be playing AQ3D! ) and whatnot.


 Betalogue » Disappearing cursor in Microsoft Word 2011: Affects .doc documents only?
Here we are, in April 2014, and the problem is still going on.
So what else can I say about it that I haven't said before?
Well, yesterday, quite out of the blue, I decided to try a little experiment. I created a new blank document in Word 2011, inserted a text box in it, typed some text in the text box, and then tried to move the cursor around with the cursor keys. This, in my experience, would normally trigger the problem (which was happening in another existing document with text boxes that I was working on at the same time). Only it didn't.
Why? Well, I decided to try and find out. Since the other document I was working on was a .doc document, rather than a .docx document, I repeated the exact same process, but this time saving the new document as a .doc document first. And guess what? In that document I was able to reproduce the problem by moving the cursor around in the text box with the cursor keys.
Try it yourself: In Word 2011, create a new document. Save it as a .doc document (using the Word 97-2004 document file format). Insert a text box, type some text in the text box, then press the Left cursor key to move the I-beam cursor around.
When I do this on my machine, the cursor disappears while I hold the cursor key, and only reappears and starts blinking again when I release the key.
Now, this is only one particular situation where the cursor disappears temporarily like this when moving it around with the cursor keys. There are other situations (without text boxes) where the cursor can also disappearing temporarily while typing or navigating text. But this one is a start. It's a pretty obvious one, and it's 100% reproducible in a brand new document, at least on my machine.
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Another Letter to the NYT Not Printed
The outcry of disappointed and even angry Jews demanding egalitarian prayer privileges at Jerusalem's Western Wall against the Israel government's decision to freeze an arrangement ("Israel Suspends Plan for Egalitarian Prayer Area at Western Wall
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) need be put into perspective.
A very small minority of Conservative and Reform Jews, if even that, support any form of Jewish prayer less than 100 yards away on the Temple Mount. One cannot demand a right if one denies that same right to others.
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The Battle of the Rails
From an Arabic-language article on Rawabi
In the recent Kerry plan, the ARC project, sponsored by the famous American organization RAND, was approved. This project links Palestinian cities by train between the cities of the Gaza Strip and Hebron and Jenin (90 minutes between its first and last stop).
This project hopes to reshape the Palestinian space to suit the Zionist settlement. The project is a practical solution for the existence of a Palestinian state without removing the settlements in the West Bank. It transfers Palestinian transportation away from the visual field of the settlers and fosters the false feeling of the Palestinian state and its independence.
It is worth mentioning that Rawabi is within the scope of this project! This Palestinian Authority is considered to be the job of protecting the security and preventing any action against the occupation, in order to impose its sovereignty and definition of it, while the settlers do not violate its prestige.
That "ARC Project"? (ARC = Access to the Region's Core)
Creating a successful independent Palestinian state poses a wide range of political, economic, social, and environmental challenges. Since 2002, a multidisciplinary team of experts from the RAND Corporation has been working with Palestinians, Israelis, and the international community to develop an in-depth and comprehensive nation-building plan to address these challenges and facilitate the state's success.
An exploration of options for strengthening the physical infrastructure for a new Palestinian state, this study builds on analyses that RAND conducted between 2002 and 2004 to identify the requirements for a successful Palestinian state. That work, Building a Successful Palestinian State, surveyed a broad array of political, economic, social, resource, and environmental challenges that a new Palestinian state would face. This study, The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, examined a range of approaches to siting and constructing the backbone of infrastructure that all states need, in the context of a large and rapidly growing Palestinian population. The research team develop a detailed vision for a modern, high-speed transportation infrastructure, referred to as the Arc. This transportation backbone accommodates substantial population growth in Palestine by linking current urban centers to new neighborhoods via new linear transportation arteries that support both commercial and residential development. The Arc avoids the environmental costs and economic inefficiencies of unplanned, unregulated urban development that might otherwise accompany Palestine's rapid population growth. Constructing the key elements of the Arc will require very substantial investment of economic resources. It will also employ substantial numbers of Palestinian construction workers. It seems plausible that key aspects of the Arc design can be pursued, with great benefit, even before an independent Palestinian state is established.
As for railways, in 2012 we read:
Israel Railways has prepared a major plan for providing train service throughout the West Bank to serve both Israelis and Palestinians. The plan, prepared at the request of Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, calls for establishing 11 new rail lines, according to a map that Haaretz has obtained.
And last November we read
Plans to expand Jerusalem's light rail will connect Israel's capital with three West Bank settlements, including the city of Ma'aleh Adumim...Transportation Minister Israel Katz said the issue was equity for all Israel's citizens.
"Those who live in Gush Etzion, in Binyamin, in Ma'aleh Adumim, in Beit Shemesh and in Mevaseret [Zion], must receive transportation services," Katz said. Although there are those who say "an artificial barrier" must be placed between those who live on one side of the Green Line and the other, he said, "We, of course, do not accept this."
The Transportation Ministry provided The Jerusalem Post with a map of the new lines, which show five extensions.
In addition to Ma'aleh Adumim, the train will reach the settlements of Givat Ze'ev and Geva Binyamin [Adam], both of which also are just outside of Jerusalem.
In February this year, we learned:
The Israeli government has launched a new five-year plan to upgrade the transportation infrastructure in the West Bank to the tune of NIS 5 billion ($1.3 billion).
The project, led by Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, will include excavating new tunnels, expending main highways, road resurfacing, paving interchanges, new access roads and bypasses, and creating easier access to the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem metropolitan areas via light rail and special public transit lanes...
The plan also includes a light rail that would connect the settlement of Ariel and the Samaria region to the Greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area. The light rail will go from Ariel towards Rosh HaAyin and Petah Tikvah.
I guess it'll be a battle of the rails.
Posted by YMedad at 1:39 AM 1 comment:
Labels: railways
A local-oriented detective novel, first published in 1987, is out in Kindle.
"Bullets of Palestine".
Kaplan is not pro-Judea and Samaria.
Two agents. Two opposing sides.
Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and dangerous Abu Nidal.
Shai is under orders to kill Ramzy when the mission ends. Instead, they forge a friendship that transcends the hatreds of their heritage. Loyalties are tested. Will they capture Abu Nidal or betray each other? In a conflict where both sides dehumanize each other, two extremely human men, are caught in the cross-hairs of the larger war.
"Shai is under orders to kill Ramzy when the mission ends"
Of course. Really now, the Arab would never think to kill the Israeli, would he?
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Satirical Piece on Uri Blau
After Blau published this piece,
Exclusive Firebrand Anti-leftist Group, Which Slams Foreign Funding of Israeli NGOs, Received Over $1M From U.S. Donors
Majority of funding in 2015 to Im Tirtzu, a frequent and outspoken critic of Israeli human rights organizations, came from two U.S. groups close to Netanyahu and the GOP
which is BS as the money is not from foreign governments like all the leftist NGOs and there is no comparison, I was sent this satirical piece:
Seeking to rebuild his reputation after a conviction for leaking classified information, Uri Blau has set out on a courageous mission to show how right wing political groups in Israel are in fact foreign political agents. This bold moves comes as the investigation into possible collusion between President Trumps campaign team and the Russian Government, and the possibility this may have undermined democracy by impacting the US election, continues to make headlines across the world. Blau has has made a bold effort to borrow from reporting on the US scandal littering his piece with references to the GOP.
Blau's creative article shows how leading American Jews with right of center views play leading roles in supporting both right of center American causes and in supporting right of center Israeli causes. He even reveals that Israel's Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who heads a right of center party is close to people heading the American friends of his party. This will no doubt come as a shocking revelation to many, Blau has made an extraordinary contribution to journalism in exposing these connection. He should share any journalism prizes for this contribution with the source, revealed in his article, who gave him that critical breakthrough by suggesting he use the Google Search Engine to find the answers to his questions.
Unfortunately neither the comparison to the alleged involvement of the Russian state in influencing the US election, nor the comparison to the very real direct foreign government funding of political NGOs in Israel and their efforts to influence Israeli domestic politics compares well to the situation Blau discovered at the right of center Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu. For a start, the majority of Im Tirtzu's funding came from Israelis. Compare this to... (insert content). For another things, the foreign funding Im Tirtzu received came not from governments but from individual charitable donations.
What Blau's article titled "Exclusive Firebrand Anti-leftist Group, Which Slams Foreign Funding of Israeli NGOs, Received Over $1M From U.S. Donors" actually exposes is the fact that Jewish community leaders in the US support Israel. Just as left of center community leaders in the United States run left of center groups and raise funds for left of center Israeli NGOs, so do right of center groups run right of center groups and collect money for right of center Israeli NGOS. What it fails to highlight is that these donations on the right, coming from individuals, are a boost to civil society in Israel and not the hijacking of civil society that has occurred in response to payments from foreign governments who have through their funding taken control of the activities of much of the left of civil society.
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A Muslim Report with Good News
An impressive 40+ page report is out. I found it published at Al-Quds City and its theme is that the Haram Al-Sharif is in danger and its Muslim protection is 'collapsing'.
And a part of that 'collapse' is a reduced number of worshipers.
Translating the abstract informs us that:
On the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Al-Aqsa Mosque, this study presents a historical reading of the development of the elements threatening the identity of the mosque...the study identified four basic elements: the first turning the nature of the political elite [of Israel] to the right, and the rise of the temple groups - the mission to build the temple in the place of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the entire area - to seize the parliamentary and government influence until it reached a quarter of seats Netanyahu's fourth government, The Jewish religious rules that forbade the entry of Jews to the mosque [altered]...so that more than 50% of the Jews of the state follow the references advocating the entry of Jews to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the third was changing the American position from a position conforming to international law sees the mosque occupied land as not disputed. The fourth of which is the excavation of archeological sites and points of archaeological excavation to an integrated tourist city under the mosque that steals its underground space and tells a false story about its history of three million visitors annually. And the expansion of changes in the perimeter of the mosque from the demolition and removal of Arab and Islamic landmarks in 1967, to the establishment of facilities and landmarks of Judaic change the identity of the perimeter of the mosque number eight. The reading concludes in this direction that the self-imposed and international restraints of the Zionists towards the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque are eroding to the point of melting, which explains the new attack to change its identity.
The study concluded that Al-Aqsa Mosque was the epicenter of the conflict for which the last three popular confrontations were launched over the past three decades. This trend is continuing, and with the assessment of the reflection of these tours on the mosque, the status of the mosque was steadily declining...The third element was the Jordanian Endowments Department of the mosque, which is acquired to preserve its Islamic identity and the regularity of the presence of departments that represent it, but it tends to reduce its ceilings in successive after each round new pressures on them.
The fourth element is the repeated international condemnation of any attack on the identity of the mosque as null and void, both in 1968 and 1969 after it was burned or after the decision to annex Jerusalem in 1980 or after the massacre of al-Aqsa in 1990 or after the tunnel award in 1996 or after Sharon's invasion of al-Aqsa in 2000. The Arab countries did not take the issue of al-Aqsa to the decision-making bodies of the United Nations - the General Assembly and the Security Council - and not only once, but only to keep the debate within UNESCO, which is a specialized executive body of the United Nations, The fourth ring of its own troops have stopped worshiping there.
The study pointed out that the two trends observed in the same outcome towards the further Judaization of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the threat of its Islamic identity, and that the heart of this historical process can not be done between day and night and has no direct solutions. The first is to stop the reduction of losses and prolong the life of the conflict by trying to monitor its future battles and to fight each one until the end despite the realization of the possibility of losing, and the second is to try to change the environment to reduce the risks and restore the tugs and elements of force against them...
Finally, some good news.
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Labels: Temple Mount
Why Isn't He Causing an 'Explosion'
As Haaretz reported:
Jibril Rajoub, a senior official in the Palestinian Authority, has said that the Western Wall should remain under Israeli sovereignty.
"We understand that the wall he [U.S. President Donald Trump] visited is sacred to the Jews and ultimately it has to remain under Jewish sovereignty," Rajoub said on Channel 2's "Meet the Press."
"There is no argument over this. Obviously, it's a holy place for Jews," he added.
Rajoub linked sovereignty over the Western Wall to sovereignty over the Temple Mount. "The Temple Mount is ours, not yours, and I think you should stop talking as if it's yours. That's the status quo since 1967, as established by [Israeli general] Moshe Dayan, and we both have to strive for that. If you want to create an explosion just say 'it's ours, it's ours,'" he said.
Just a moment.
How come when he says "The Temple Mount is ours", the reaction is he is not creating an explosion?
On Saturday, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub gave an interview in Hebrew to Israeli TV Channel 2. Rajoub stated that Palestinians understand that the Western Wall is "holy for the Jews," and that it should be "under Jewish sovereignty... We have no argument with that."
However, addressing Palestinians in Arabic, Rajoub denies having made this statement. Rather, he claims to have said that the site should be "under Jewish religious supervision," and wrote explicitly on his personal Facebook page: "I did not mention the word sovereignty or Israel." He also accused Israeli TV of editing out parts of the interview with him.
Labels: Jibril Rajoub, Temple Mount, Western Wall
Jordan's Piece of Paper and What to Do with It
Jordan's official Petra News agency reports:
The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs handed the Israeli Embassy in Amman a memo to protest allowing Jewish extremists into the Al Aqsa Mosque/Haram Al Sharif under the protection of the Israeli police. The Jordanian government asked the Israeli government in the memo to immediately put an end to such acts of aggression and provocation and respect the Jordanian role in caring for Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem
Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel recognizes Jordan's role as custodian of Muslim and Christian shrines in the city, which was occupied by Israel during the 1967 war. The ministry said that such acts inflame the feelings of Muslims around the world, violate Article 9 of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel and are not in line with Israeli's legal obligations, as the occupying power, in accordance with international law.
The memo said that such actions harm relations between the two countries and undermine efforts to reduce tension and preserve the status quo in the Al Aqsa Mosque/ Haram Al Sharif.
Article 9?
"Custodian"?
The text:
PLACES OF HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE
Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance.In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines.The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace.
I hope the Embassy staff told the messenger just what to do with that piece of paper the memo was written on.
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Labels: Jordan, Temple Mount


Long absence on the part of Poppycakes. To talk about why is to talk about the audience for any creative act in which one engages. A cake has a community implicit in its abundance. And my cakes have been fortunate feeders of more than one set of masses. But there is always the favorite recipient, the person that a good cake is made to please. For my fig cake, an old recipe, tried and tried and true, I have always enjoyed serving my father. My father is a professional cook and to bake or cook anything that he might compliment is a fine thing. But for the last two years, I have been able to bake for my partner's father, a man with a sensitive palate, one of those rare persons who sees the poetry in a cake's blend of flavor and texture and that welcome, welcome soul who asks, each time the cake is unveiled for a description of the cake and filling and frosting and upon hearing the words: white chocolate, cream cheese frosting, or raspberry filling gets an extra glitter to the already-sparkling eyes.
He was eighty-four, dashing, elegant and so handsome that even at eighty-four it was easy to see how smitten his wife of sixty years must have been when that beautiful man came to her door that first time. Such was this man, such was the cakemaker's new favorite connoisseur. With the exception of dollcakes, every cake on this blog made by Poppycakes was made for GCM. So today's cake is as much in memory as it is in gratitude, not just for Thanksgiving but for those souls that pass through our lives and make every sweetness the sweeter for it. Today's cake was meant to be made with a smaller cake version of itself that was going to be frosting-inscribed Happy Thanksgiving GCM. Every cake is still for you. I was going to leave the smaller cake in the woods and let some soon-to-be-diabetic raccoon swear his initials were GCM. But my frosting-inscriptions aren't ever legible enough for long notes and the cake I chose to bake was devil's food in its base, I worried about the dangers of chocolate to wildlife. Also, the loss was recent and I was sad. So I chose to make this cake and add my own personal symbol to include my old friend and favorite taster in the cake's message. I made small white frosting loops or ribbons on the edges with my own makeshift baggy-with-a-hole frosting bag. The frosting, a cream cheese white chocolate blend was rich and divine and the filling, raspberry preserves with marshmallow sauce and pure almond extract added just enough difference in texture as did the toasted almonds, and the cake itself was moist enough to have made my friend smile, the thought of which made a bittersweet holiday, a little bit happier.