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Why the Dow Jones Industrial Average Is Rallying Despite U.S.-China Trade Woes
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average will bounce back slightly after U.S. President Donald Trump's Monday announcement that the United States and China would know if a deal was possible in the coming weeks. This was on the heels of the DJIA's worst daily performance since January. More details below.
Plus: an uptick in gas prices after Saudi Arabia declares an "act of terrorism" on one of its pipelines.
Here are the numbers from Monday for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq:
Dow Jones 25,324.99 -617.38 -2.38
S&P 500 2,811.87 -69.53 -2.41
Nasdaq 7,647.02 -269.92 -3.41
Now, here's a closer look at today's Money Morning insight, the most important market events, and stocks to watch.
The Top Stock Market Stories for Tuesday
Markets are up slightly after President Trump said late Monday that the countries would know within a few weeks whether a deal can be finalized. That said, China is aiming once again at American products including cameras, tequila, and a list of agricultural goods. This will directly impact the U.S. farming community, which has already experienced significant pain due to the ongoing trade spat between the countries. Although some economists on both sides of the Pacific Ocean have shown signs of cautious optimism over a deal, it's clear the window is closing fast.
Oil prices are ticking higher after Saudi Arabia announced that drones were responsible for terrorism against two pipelines. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih calls the incident earlier this week an "act of terrorism" but said that pipeline service was not interrupted. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. WTI crude oil was up 1.28% to hit $61.82, while Brent crude gained 1.47% at $71.26.
Finally, the price of Bitcoin was back up above $8,200 as its incredible rally continues. The world's largest cryptocurrency rallied by more than $1,200 in a day, while its counterpart, gold, lifted to a one-month high in the wake of the trade battle. It appears that global investors are turning to Bitcoin as a safe haven of money. Many analysts believe that Bitcoin is set for another parabolic rise and that it could create another buying frenzy should it top $10,000 soon. Find out how you can maximize your Bitcoin profit here.
Stocks to Watch Today: TTWO, FB, WMT, AMZN
Shares of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) were up 0.5% after the company reported earnings Monday. The firm claimed stronger profits, with earnings coming in at $0.78. However, revenue dipped below Wall Street expectations, and the company's guidance remained weak due to rising competition from games like Fortnite.
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The ongoing privacy lapses at Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) appear to have generated so much outrage in Washington that the company may require 20 years of U.S. government oversight. According to reports by CNBC, the firm is on the verge of a deal with the government to resolve a probe about U.S. consumer privacy dating back to 2011. The firm may also pay roughly $3 billion in penalties to the Federal Trade Commission.
Shares of Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) are ticking up 0.8% in pre-market hours as the U.S. retailer attempts to rebound from yesterday's market rout. Its headlines are making waves thanks to the announcement of one-day delivery for more than 200,000 items on its e-commerce site. The strategy is directly aimed at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which announced a similar service in April.
Look for earnings reports from Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NYSE: ACB), Container Store Group Inc. (NYSE: TCS), Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE: RL), Tilray Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY), and Vodafone Group Plc. (NYSE: VOD).
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Cryptocurrency legend Michael Robinson just revealed the little-known details regarding the future of Bitcoin… and why at any moment, it could be poised for a record-breaking rebound far beyond anything we've witnessed already.
Michael made a prediction about Bitcoin way back in 2013 – and folks who followed his advice stood to become 253 times richer. I'd venture to say not one in 10,000 people are aware of the massive profit potential unfolding right now.
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TAKING THE HYSTERIA OUT OF HEAD LICE: More lenient rules make some schools jumpy
School nurses and other health authorities say stricken students should be able to stay in class. But such a progressive approach bugs many parents and district leaders.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/19t5qcS
December 15, 2013, 7:55 p.m. :: LOVELOCK, Nev. — For years, school nurse Deborah Pontius came to work with nits to pick. On some days in this isolated central Nevada town, she'd actually sift through the hair of students found with live head lice.
<<Deborah Pontius, chief nurse for Pershing County School District in Nevada, uses a stuffed louse to teach children about curing head lice. She and other nurses advocate letting students with lice stay in class rather than miss school. (John M. Glionna / Los Angeles Times / December 4, 2013)
But something bigger bugged her: the district's policy of sending children home when they were infested with head lice — grayish-white insects that suck blood from the scalp and cause severe itching.
Pontius saw stricken students miss weeks of school. A reentry ticket involved painstaking inspections, with parents required to prove that not a single hitchhiker resided on a child's head. Aside from the "ick" factor, she wondered, was there a reason to quarantine the youngsters?
Like a bug detective, Pontius dove in to determine where students were contracting the creatures. As chief nurse for the Pershing County School District's 600 students, Pontius consulted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She interviewed families of lice-infested students.
In the vast majority of cases, it turned out students did not contract the bugs in the classroom. And since the stubby-legged louse does not fly or jump and needs close bodily contact to spread, it seemed reasonable that students under care for the infestation could remain in class without risk to others.
Pontius successfully persuaded the district to change its policy — as the Los Angeles Unified School District had already done. A growing number of school districts have followed suit.
With Pontius co-writing the new policy paper, the National Assn. of School Nurses changed its recommendations to allow students with head lice — known as pediculosis — to stay in class. But Pontius, 55, knows the battle isn't over.
Parents complain that school officials' failure to issue warning letters when a student is found with head lice leaves them without tools to fight infestation. One New Jersey district has signaled it may revert to the lice ban after objections by school board members. And the National Pediculosis Assn., a nonprofit group, has warned that easing school restrictions could harm efforts to halt the spread of what it calls a communicable parasitic disease.
"L.A. County and other communities are trading in their nit-free standard for children in the classroom in favor of chasing lice with pesticides," the organization complained in response to the Los Angeles Unified School District policy that permits children to attend school even if they show signs of lice eggs, or nits.
It's unclear how many districts nationwide have opted for less-restrictive lice policies, but Nevada offers a hint: Of 14 counties with chief school district nurses, four have eased their rules on head lice since 2011, and others are cautiously considering the move.
"We know people will overreact," said Sheila Story, chief nurse for the Carson City School District. "Head lice just gets everyone over-excited."
Even in Lovelock, a two-exit town along Interstate 80 two hours northeast of Reno, the new rules have caused tension among parents, teachers and the school board.
"This is one of the most contentious issues school boards nationwide have to deal with," Pontius said. "The best I can hope is that people accept that this condition isn't worth taking a child from school. What people really want is for the lice to go away, and that's not going to happen."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 6 million to 12 million U.S. children between the ages of 3 and 11 are infested each year by lice, which do not carry disease. The bugs crawl among children during sustained contact at sleepovers, play groups and other such activities. The wingless insects live their entire lives on human scalps, feeding on blood and attaching their eggs to hair follicles.
CDC officials support more lenient polices of the American Academy of Pediatrics, whose 2010 report said, "No healthy child should be excluded from or allowed to miss school time because of head lice," adding that "no-nit" policies keeping students out of school "should be abandoned."
Under Lovelock's guidelines, Pontius calls the parents of students with lice and recommends chemical treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She does not send a general notification letter to other parents for fear of hysteria.
She also gives out a fact sheet she calls "Lice 101: Everything You Really Didn't Want to Know About Lice." She and other National Nursing Assn. board members who worked on the group's new policy jokingly called themselves "nit-pickers" and "lice ladies" to take the edge off what they say is an overblown health scare.
But Pontius cannot expunge the stigma that head lice are a scarlet letter of bad parenting. "With even the mention of head lice, people itch — they scratch their heads," she said. "Many mistakenly see the bugs as signs of a dirty home."
Critics say the newer bug policies don't take the insects seriously enough.
Gregory Nolan, superintendent of Flemington-Raritan Regional School District in New Jersey, says the board wants to dump the more lenient protocol it adopted in 2010 that also calls for nurses to recommend accepted chemical treatments to parents to treat the lice. Critics worry that exposure to chemical washes used to treat head lice are toxic to young children over time.
"Our board members are also parents," Nolan said. "They want new protocols that term head lice as a contagious infestation."
Shea Murphy, principal at Lovelock Elementary School, opposed Pontius' plan, but has changed her mind. "We've taken the hysteria out of head lice," she said. "We tell parents who call about some kid with a problem: 'Here it is. We're moving on.'"
Pockets of resistance remain, however. School board member Shayla Hudson, a cosmetologist, says trade rules forbid her from working on customers with head lice. She doesn't want the insects in school either: "We'll just have to wait until the next head lice epidemic and look at this issue again."
Lovelock teacher Dana Montes calls lice a classroom nightmare. "One girl, all she did was sit there picking out the lice and putting them on the desk." She believes the bugs move among hats and coats on racks or among students working in close quarters.
That's how she got a case of head lice from a student six years ago: "I leaned over her at the reading table and saw lice in her hair. Then one dropped onto the desk. By then it was too late."
The bugs are gone, but not forgotten. "When I die and go to heaven," Montes said, "the first question I'm going to ask God is: 'Why did you create lice? What was that all about?'"
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Can I protect my child from becoming so nearsighted?
My previous "Why am I Nearsighted?" blog explains what myopia (nearsightedness) is and discusses what we know and don't know about the causes of myopia and the reasons for its progression through childhood and adult life.
Although we still don't know the answer to the question: "Is it preventable?", some recent research gets us a little closer to discovering an answer.
There is important ongoing research into myopia prevention and we're beginning to learn about some forms of treatment that may help slow the rate of worsening myopia in childhood, and ultimately reduce the total amount of myopia. Unfortunately, so far, we have not learned how to prevent it altogether.
Studies are showing that the rate of myopia progression can be reduced in young children treated with special peripheral defocus contact lenses or glasses. The rate myopia increases year after year can be slowed up to 59% using special contact lenses, such as MISight daily disposable contact lenses. Special glasses, although not as effective as contact lenses, may reduce progression about 10-20%.
Atropine eye drops have also been shown to slow the rate of progression by approximately 60% with some individual variability. Atropine drops may have some side effects, such as light sensitivity and reduced near vision. The severity of the side effects can be reduced by using a low dose of the drop.
Orthokeratology is the use of gas permeable rigid contact lens, worn at nighttime, to reshape the cornea. This treatment also slows the progression of myopia by approximately 50%.
As stated in my previous blog, ensuring our children have plenty of time outdoors, also appears to help slow myopia progression.
If you have questions concerning your child's nearsightness and whether treatment may be beneficial for them, please schedule an appointment for your child and we would be happy to discuss it further.
Arkona Health Practitioners celebrate the past and look to the future.
Arkona has attracted excellent health care practitioners over the years – most recently Drs. Kristina and Connor Rice the new physicians at the Arkona Medical Center. To welcome and celebrate, all the practitioners with spouses recently gathered for dinner. Dr. John Lovell provided opening remarks and welcomed the newest doctors: Dr. Tina Morowat, optometrist; Dr. Jeremy McCallum, dentist; as well as the new physicians. Dr. Mark Teeple presented a short history of health care in Arkona. The health care team in Arkona now comprises physicians, dentists, chiropodist, hearing instrument specialist, optometrists and many supporting staff. Everyone expressed how wonderful it is to work in and with this community, and that the future of health care in Arkona looks great!
Electronic Screens and Children's Vision – Are They Causing Harm?
Tablets, phones, TVs and electronic games have permeated our homes leaving parents wondering if, how much, when and how closely these devices should be used by their children. Most office days we encounter children and adults patients with symptoms related to screen use, such as headaches, blurred vision or itchy, burning, tired eyes. The source of the problem may be a correctable underlying vision disorder or inappropriate use of the device. Nonvisual effects of excessive screen time can include increased risk of obesity, poor school performance, sleep disturbances, and delays in critical learning and social skills.
The Canadian Association of Optometrists and the Canadian Ophthalmological Society recently released a joint position statement to address these questions based on the current state of research. Below is an excerpt from the statement with the key recommendations.
– 0–2 years: None, with the possible exception of live video-chatting (e.g., Skype, Facetime) with parental support, due to its potential for social development, though this needs further investigation.
– 2–5 years: No more than 1 hour per day. Programming should be age-appropriate, educational, high-quality, and co-viewed, and should be discussed with the child to provide context and help them apply what they are seeing to their 3-dimensional environment.
– 5–18 years: Ideally no more than 2 hours per day of recreational screen time. Parents and eyecare providers should be aware that children report total screen time use as much higher (more than 7 hours per day in some studies). This is not unrealistic considering the multitude of device screens children may be exposed to in a day, both at home and at school. Individual screen time plans for children between the ages of 5–18 years should be considered based on their development and needs.
b) Breaks no later than after 60 minutes of use (after 30 minutes is encouraged). Breaks should include whole-body physical activity. The ideal length of break has not been identified for either children or adults.
c) Workstation ergonomics: Chair heights should be set such that the child's feet can lay flat on the floor or on a stool underneath the feet to allow for support. Chairs should not have arm rests unless they fit the child perfectly, as should back rests. Desks should be set at the child's elbow height or slightly lower. There should be enough depth on the desk to allow for forearm support; this is specifically effective in preventing musculoskeletal strain. Displays should be set in front of the child. There is no official recommendation for the angle of screen inclination. For computers, it is recommended to place the top of the display or monitor at the child's eye level, and then allow them to move the screen down into a comfortable viewing position as needed. Official recommendations regarding a screen's distance from a child do not exist; the computer screen should be placed at arm's length, and then moved as necessary. External devices such as keyboards should also be placed in front of the child, with the mouse close to the keyboard and appropriately sized. Workstation lighting should be equal throughout the visual field, so glare and reflections that inhibit screen viewing or cause visual discomfort are inhibited.
d) The use of screens should be avoided one hour before bedtime. Screens in the bedroom are not recommended.
e) Outdoor activity over screen time should be encouraged.
f) Children may or may not complain of electronic screen-associated discomfort. Regular eye exams, which assess a child's visual ability to cope with their visual demands and offer treatments for deficiencies (e.g., glasses correction; treatment (other than glasses) of other contributing eye conditions, etc.) are recommended.
For the complete position statement, including references, click here.
The new glasses you have purchased from Teeple Optometry look and feel fantastic but you're wondering how you can keep them in great condition. I've jotted down 12 suggestions that can help you protect your glasses from excessive wear and damage. Rest assured, your glasses have been carefully crafted, using quality materials so they will serve you a long time with proper care.
Wear them! Believe it or not, your glasses are less likely to be damaged when wearing them.
Put them on and off with two hands without swiping them to the side.
Never place glasses lens side down or where the lenses can come in contact with a hard surface and place them in a safe place, preferably folded properly in their case.
Dust, water spots & light soiling: Use a soft, clean microfiber cloth and gently wipe them clean.
Moderate oil & smudging: Use our lens spray cleaner on each surface and wipe with a soft, clean white paper towel or microfiber cloth. You can get no charge lens cleaner refills at Teeple Optometry by bringing in your empty spray bottle.
Heavy smudging and oil: After rinsing them with warm water, rub a drop or two of lotion free, mild dish soap on the entire surface of your lenses with your fingertips. Gently rub and rinse all the soap residue off the lenses with warm water. Gently wipe dry with a clean, soft paper towel continually moving to a dry piece of the towel.
Remember to have clean hands when cleaning your glasses. Sunscreen and hand lotion are notoriously difficult to remove from lenses. Avoid contact with hairspray, paint spray or other chemicals. Avoid leaving the glasses in high temperature areas, such as in a hot car.
Let us adjust your glasses. If they are uncomfortable, bent or loose, you run the risk of breaking your glasses with improper adjustment. We're happy to do this for you at no charge, with an appointment. Periodically, check for unusual play in the temples or eye wire screws and, if loose, bring them in for tightening and resealing.
Write your contact information on a card inside your lens case, in the unfortunate event of forgetting your glasses somewhere.
Wear safety glasses or a shield if working in an environment where they are required, where there is a risk of impact, or if you're concern about damage to your glasses. Ensure shields, fit overs or clip-on sunglasses are well adjusted and are not rubbing against the lenses.
If you wear your sunglasses while boating, add a floating strap just in case the wind catches them!
The glasses are yours. Don't let others wear them or play with them.
Your glasses have a warranty. If parts need replacement, check with us to see if they're covered.
Glasses do eventually show signs of age because of normal wear or change in fashion. Even if your prescription hasn't changed, expect to replace your glasses every couple of years. That way, you'll have a fairly current second pair as well.
Tips to help you prepare for your child's visit to the optometrist.
There's a first for everything and now, after reading the previous blog, you realize it's time to schedule your child for an eye examination. Every child is unique and each visit is a little different but here are a few general ideas that can make the visit a good experience for all.
First, it's a good idea to schedule your child's appointment at a time of day when they are well rested and not hungry. We all do better after having a good sleep and with a full stomach. Depending on your child's needs, expect that the visit will take 30 to 60 minutes in office. Many parents who have 3 or more children, find it easier to schedule no more than 2 or 3 on the same day and book the others on another day. A "marathon" office visit can be exhausting for children and parents. Families with several young children who require close supervision, often bring along the second parent or a caretaker to help out. It's not always possible, but if you are able, schedule your own eye examination on another day without small children so your attention to the testing is undivided. We are happy to reschedule your child if they are ill on the day of the appointment. Otherwise, we prefer 24 hours' notice for canceled appointments. Normally, appointments will be completely covered by OHIP. Periodically, non-insured additional testing will be advised and costs explained.
Most children enjoy their experience at the eye doctor's. After all these years in practice, the process of vision still amazes me. Leading up to the appointment day, do engage your child's curiosity and sense of wonder by talking about vision and eyes. Ask them questions like "I wonder why we have to blink?" or "Why aren't things completely black when I close my eyes?" I love it when children ask me questions about eyes and vision. Avoid the use of negative talk, unrealistic expectations or threats such as "I hope you won't need glasses", or "You better be good or the doctor will get upset". Fortunately, there is no test or procedure in an eye test that hurts. Most babies will require eye drops during their examination. Toddlers and children sometimes require them as well. Drops can sting a little when instilled and cause bright, blurred vision for a couple of hours afterward, but children generally tolerate this quite well. I advise minimizing or avoiding prior discussion about drops to avoid "anticipation anxiety" that can develop in some kids.
On the day of the appointment, bring a familiar toy or book for your child and a snack or drink if necessary. We have many fun toys and books in the children's play area too. Be prepared to complete a history form for your child after you arrive. The waiting room experience can be quite educational for young children, requiring them to share space with the elderly, those with disabilities, and other children. Because this is a medical facility, children should be constantly supervised and not allowed to wander. Don't hesitate to ask one of the staff if you require anything for your child or to let us know if they have special needs.
We invite parents or caretakers to be in the room during the child's examination, unless it is an older child who prefers to be independent. Although not always possible, a child's siblings can sometimes be a distraction during the eye test and it may be preferable for them to remain in the waiting area. Babies and young toddlers are welcome to sit on their parent's lap. Some young children prefer to have their parent standing right next to them, holding their hand while trust is built. Some children are very quiet and shy and some are active and easily distracted, but using a variety of methods we are able to examine each one. During a toddler's or a young child's examination, the optometrist will ask several questions about school, hobbies, their eyes, etc. knowing that their answers may not necessarily be accurate. This interchange is important for the optometrist to better understand the child. The optometrist is then able to tailor the examination to the maturity and knowledge level of the child. As a parent, it can be difficult to remain silent when your child answers questions incorrectly, or does not know the answer, but please allow them some time and freedom to respond the best they can. It is very helpful for the conversation to be between the optometrist and the child. Don't worry, there will be an opportunity later in the exam to correct things! Following the testing, the results of the examination and recommendations for care will be explained.
For many children, treatment is not required. If your child requires treatment or follow-up, the details and options will be explained and questions from you and your child are welcomed. Treatment options may include glasses, vision training, contact lenses, patching or just simply monitoring. If your child requires glasses, the selection process can begin immediately or be rescheduled. A written prescription will always be provided. We will also recommend when your child's next examination should occur.
We look forward to your child's visit!
Many Canadian parents are not aware that an eye examination is recommended for infants as early as 6 months old. The Canadian Association of Optometrists recommends an eye exam at 6-9 months old, between 2 to 5 years old and then annually (or as recommended by the optometrist) from ages 6 to 19. There are several reasons for these early recommendations.
Certain eye conditions are without symptoms and show no visible signs.
Other conditions may cause eyestrain and blurry vision, however the child may not complain as it may seem normal to them if they have never experienced clear, comfortable vision. Infants and toddlers are too young to verbalize a complaint.
Eye conditions that can cause permanently reduced vision and affect depth perception are best treated in early childhood.
You may be wondering… "How can an eye exam be performed on a baby who does not give any verbal responses?" Optometrists objectively assess vision, refractive error, eye alignment and ocular health in order to treat and prevent common conditions, and also can detect rare life- or sight-threatening disorders. Optometrists use a variety of techniques to achieve this, and often use drops that dilate the pupils and relax the focusing muscles for a more accurate and thorough assessment.
Between 2.5-3 years old, a more interactive eye examination is possible as the toddler is usually able to give responses. Optometrists check vision using pictures and much of the testing is presented in the form of "games". We test for certain types of eye turns which typically begin to occur at this age, as well as high refractive disorders. Leaving these, often symptomless conditions, uncorrected can result in amblyopia, or a lazy eye. Significant hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism are also risk factors for amblyopia and are associated with poor visual perceptual skills and learning disabilities. Other testing such as stereopsis and colour vision is also performed.
By ages 4 and up, optometrists assess for any conditions that may interfere with visual development, visual perceptual skills and early learning. This includes binocular vision disorders and refractive errors, including early myopia.
Twenty five percent of children have some form of vision problem, yet less than 30% of children are taking advantage of yearly OHIP-insured eye examinations.
Eye See…Eye Learn® is a program offered by the Ontario Association of Optometrists that provides a complimentary pair of glasses by participating local optometrists to junior kindergarten students across Ontario. The program was developed to raise awareness among parents of the importance of having their children's eyes checked when starting school.
Much of learning begins through the eyes and our goal as optometrists is to provide clear and effective vision for children to ensure the highest visual and learning potential in life. A little prevention goes a long way. Don't hesitate to call our office today and reserve a convenient appointment for your child.
Imagine a thief stealing a little tiny bit of your vision every day, over the course of years, starting with your peripheral vision. Normally, we don't pay much attention to our peripheral vision and we assume that how we are seeing is normal. A slow, progressive loss of peripheral vision sensitivity is the natural course of the most common type of glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma, a disease affecting the optic nerve and it's neurons. It is not until significant damage has occurred to the optic nerve and there is a profound loss of peripheral vision that a person will realize there might be a problem.
It is difficult to understand the value of our ability to perceive the world using our five senses until one of the senses is defective, as those who have lost vision or hearing will attest. Many types of vision loss can be restored using glasses, therapy, medicine or surgery. Vision loss from glaucoma cannot be reversed, only prevented in the first place. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. It is one of the reasons eye care professionals recommend regular eye examinations.
The optic nerve contains about 1 million neurons that transmit visual information from the eye to the brain. As we age, we naturally lose a few neurons year by year. When this destruction of healthy neurons is accelerated in a specific manner, it is called glaucoma. There are several types of glaucoma but I will discuss just two, primary open angle glaucoma and acute angle closure glaucoma.
The causes of primary open angle glaucoma are not yet completely understood. We know there are several risk factors for glaucoma such as elevated eye pressure, age, family history, ethnicity (such as African-American), corneal thickness, general health conditions, previous eye disease and use of certain eye medications. Glaucoma is not diagnosed with just one test and it can present quite differently between individuals. Elevated eye pressure is not always present and some people will develop glaucoma in spite of low eye pressures. Often glaucoma is diagnosed by observing changes in the eye and eye function over time. During a routine eye examination your optometrist will use special instruments to examine the optic nerve's structure at the back of the eye for signs of glaucoma. The optometrist will also inquire about risk factors, screen for peripheral vision problems and measure the eye's pressure. If there are risk factors or suspicious findings, the optometrist will do follow-up testing that might include detailed peripheral vision testing, pachymetry (measuring the corneal thickness), gonioscopy (using a special lens to examine an internal eye structure called the trabecular meshwork) and optical coherence tomography (measuring the thickness of the neuron layer around the optic nerve). Sometimes initial testing neither confirms nor rules out glaucoma and testing needs to be repeated over months and sometimes years to be certain of the diagnosis.
Treatment for primary open angle glaucoma is recommended following diagnosis or with a high level of suspicion or risk of vision loss. The goal of treatment is to prevent further vision loss by lowering the eye pressure to a level where damage to the optic nerve would be minimized. Treatment can involve prescription eye drops, laser, surgery or a combination of these. Frequent follow-up is important to ensure the treatment is effective in halting damage to the optic nerve. Glaucoma is a chronic condition that requires monitoring, usually for the rest of one's life.
Acute angle closure glaucoma is much less common and presents very differently. There is a fluid within the eye called aqueous humour that is constantly being produced and drained. The aqueous fluid pressure "inflates" the eye giving it a normal structure. The aqueous is continually drained through the trabecular meshwork which is located in an angle where the iris and the cornea meet near the front of the eye. If the iris is too close to the cornea, for one of a few possible reasons, the angle may close, blocking the trabecular meshwork "drain" and the eye pressure then builds up rapidly, sometimes within just a few hours. When this happens, it causes blurred vision and intense eye pain. This is an eye emergency and requires immediate attention by your optometrist, ophthalmologist or emergency department in order to preserve vision. Your optometrist can tell you if you are a higher risk for acute angle closure glaucoma during a routine eye examination.
Don't allow the "silent thief" to steal one of your most precious senses. At Teeple Optometry, all the optometrists are trained to diagnose and treat glaucoma. Make sure to have regular eye examinations as recommended by your optometrist.
If it's not the patient asking "What are those floaty things in my vision?", it's the optometrist asking "Do you see floating spots?". What are those strange things in my vision that look like fish eggs, hairs, dust, segmented worms or spider webs and which many of us will see if we look carefully enough? Should I be concerned? Am I crazy to mention it to the optometrist? Maybe it will go away if I ignore it.
Let's first start with some basic anatomy, followed by some of the common causes. Then we'll discuss the kind of spots that might represent a "red flag" that should be investigated right away.
The retina is the "image sensor" of our eye. It begins the visual process of seeing the images of our "outside" world, but is also a source of images which are not part of our "outside" world. Coloured lights, a grainy pattern of lights, or dancing lights can be noticed, particularly by children, especially in dark rooms or with eyes closed. We tend to ignore this as we get older. These "inner world" images are the result of normal random firing of the neural retina causing an appearance like a dark grainy digital photo. This background visual "noise" is one of the entopic phenomena. Other entopic phenomena include lights from mechanical pressure to the eye such as with eye rubbing, "after images" after looking away from a bright object, arcing dots of light from stimulation by blood cells flowing in the retinal capillaries, "shooting stars" after coughing or bending over, and more. Light passing through closed or semi closed eyelids can produce some interesting light and colour patterns too.
The vitreous is a clear, gel-like substance which fills much of the inside of the eye. It is positioned immediately in front of the retina and light entering into the eye passes through the vitreous before it reaches the retina. Imagine a fly flying in front of a projection screen. It will cast a shadow on the screen. The closer the fly is to the screen, the clearer is the shadow. Any normal or abnormal irregularities in the vitreous structure can cast a shadow or "floater" onto the retina. It is difficult to look directly at the floater because as we move our eye the vitreous moves with it. Since the vitreous is a bit fluid like, the floater may appear to drift or "slosh" when we move our eyes. As we grow older our vitreous tends to become more liquid like and irregular. We may see more floaters which tend to move or drift more.
As we age into our 50s, 60s and 70s, many of us will develop a posterior vitreous detachment. Because the vitreous is liquefying and shrinking as it ages, it may gradually or suddenly pull away from the retina, where it is most loosely attached. This process frequently causes symptoms of flashes of light and/or new floaters and may include a new large floater, often web-like or "C" shaped. Often the vitreous detaches without causing any damage to the retina. However, sometimes the vitreous can cause a tear in the retina which may lead to a retinal detachment. This retinal damage is can threaten vision and needs to be treated promptly.
Some other abnormal causes of floaters include blood in the vitreous, inflammatory cells in the vitreous, and pigment cells released from a retinal detachment. Damage to the central part of the retina called the macula occasionally causes a more fixed spot to appear in the middle of the vision.
Most of us will see spots and unusual patterns in our vision if we look carefully enough. It is good to take an inventory of what you see. This is easier to do when you look at the sky, light colour wall or computer screen. The floaters, if large or numerous, can be annoying but they are not normally treated because of the risks associated with removal.
If at any time you notice many new spots in your vision that you have never seen before, it is important to call our office right away and have your eyes examined to determine the cause. Early detection of an abnormal cause and treatment can make a significant difference in your visual outcome.
… Oh yes, there is one more rare but documented cause of spots – Rabbititis!
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The card will be available in the second half of 2018.
The Bank of Cyprus in cooperation with the companies Gemalto and Zwipe is working on the creation of a biometric payment card authentication, fingerprint, reports The Paypers.
A pilot project for its launch will be part of a wider plan of the Bank for digitalization of services.
Customers can apply to receive such a card in the branches of the Bank. To do this, developers created a special tablet that scans the fingerprint of a user and activates the payment card by using biometric information. The card is not equipped with a battery and will be powered by the payment terminal. The system is compatible with existing technologies and the processing of payments through a biometric payment cards will not require further investment from businesses.
Due authentication by fingerprint customers will no longer have to remember to update the PIN codes of payment cards. Moreover, unlike passwords and pins, fingerprints cannot be changed. The authentication system does not imply a perfect match of the fingerprint because the skin is easily susceptible to temperature changes and external influences that may temporarily distort the fingerprint.


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Primeval – making good use of the roar materials
As the prehistoric sci-fi returns to ITV for a fifth series, Mark Braxton looks at where we are now - and what's to come
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For terrestrial fans of Primeval, the waiting is over. After a 16-month hiaitus on ITV1, the colourful, dino-flavoured sci-fi caper is back on Saturday nights where it belongs.
Series Five, which aired on Watch last year, sees the comely crew of the Anomaly Research Centre tackling big burrowing insects, ship-sized liopleurodons, a raptor, a T rex and a battalion of other beasties.
And time portals whisk the ARC angels off to Jurassic oceans, Victorian London and a scary, toxic Earth of many years hence.
Primeval is bigger and bolder than ever, in other words, and to think it could all have been so different…
In 2009, after three series, and despite healthy ratings, Primeval looked as dead and buried as a fossilised trilobite. Cancellation! But a rescue package saved the programme from extinction and gave us two more seasons – Four and now Five.
So where are we now? Well, "Previously on Primeval": mystery man Matt revealed that he was from the future; his fancy woman Emily returned to the 19th century; and squillionaire scientist Philip Burton was exposed by Danny as a bad egg who'd been in cohoots with femme fatale Helen Cutter. Remember her?
In Saturday's opening episode Philip introduces Connor to his "philanthropic" plans for mankind. It's a hit-the-ground-running reintroduction to a series that has grown in confidence, and put more time and energy into developing a story arc. This run of episodes really builds to a terrific, life-or-death crescendo.
But it's not all roar-and-claw. There are cute romances, plenty of laughs, thanks to Ben Miller as sardonic pinstripe James Lester, and stacks of CGI-bolstered action.
As for the future, ITV is remaining tight-lipped. A spokesman did recently volunteer, "We haven't commissioned any more episodes." Which sounds a bit ominous. But when I pressed him as to whether that meant the show was cancelled, he gave me an emphatic "No".
And don't forget the Canadian spin-off, Primeval: New World, which began filming in March.
So for now, Primeval is alive and well, and quite possibly thudding down a high street near you…
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Walking in Paradise
November 23rd 2009 is a day that will live in infamy for Birmingham historians. That was the day that then architecture minister Margaret Hodge rejected calls to list Birmingham Central Library as worthy of special architectural interest, sounding the death knell for the John Madin designed building.
It's hard to put over just how passionate some people were about saving the library from demolition. Where some saw a jutting slab of concrete, others saw a beautifully designed example of brutalist architecture at its finest. Petitions and activist groups were set up, outrage was made known, but it was ultimately all in vain. The library is now gone.
But not forgotten. Paradise Lost: History In The Un-Making is a film by artist and filmmaker Andy Howlett that looks to capture the history of the building and the people who worked there. Although you wouldn't exactly call it a documentary.
'I suppose you'd call it a video essay,' says Howlett, speaking at the Birmingham Open Media centre on Hinckley Street. 'It's about the history of the old library and the original plans for Paradise Circus that didn't come about. It's effectively me walking around and exploring. That's my main practice, trying to work out a place by being there and experiencing it. Call it a psycho-geographical survey of Paradise Circus, before the demolition squad moved in.'
Howlett first started making the film about three years ago and is still filming now, even as the diggers reach the final stages of their destruction. Paradise Lost is Howlett's way of capturing a key part of Birmingham's past before it's brushed aside, and he was adamant that it shouldn't just be his voice telling the story.
'I've walked around the space with other people as well, so I invited an architecture expert who worked in the library for a time, and Alan Clawley, who was campaigning for over 10 years to try and save the library. Just lots of different people who have some sort of connection to the building. I want to show how many different perspectives there are on this place, teasing out the different narratives before it's all swept away.'
Howlett is the first to admit he's no expert on the former library. Raised in Solihull, he's only adopted Birmingham as his home in the last few years, but he's wasted no time in immersing himself in the city's artistic scene. As well as acting as a co-ordinator for the Scalarama film festival, he runs the Magic Cinema 'open reel' night in Balsall Heath ('We screen short films and anybody can submit; there's no real selection process, I just show whatever I want to'), has been developing a performance piece under the Homegrown artist development programme based around a Desmond Morris film and regularly uploads walking videos to the Video Strolls website which see him explore the Midlands.
Yet Howlett's lack of personal experience with the old library could be seen as a considerable positive. He's not already laden down with preconceived ideas about the building, so he's learning at the same time as the audience are, and not just about architecture.
'The guy who used to work there said he felt the service was being deliberately run down, a process which went on and on until that was used to justify knocking the whole thing down. Alan Clawley has dug up a whole load of dirt on it. I think there were a lot of excuses used to demolish it just because it was on valuable land that be sold off and redeveloped. I think it's being turned into 'mixed use' developments, whatever that means. Shops, restaurants, that sort of thing. Very Brindleyplace, and it won't be public land, it'll all be private. That's a big theme of the film, the selling off of public space. What I call the 'blandadisation' of the city.'
Birmingham is undoubtedly in the throes of huge change. Huge developments everywhere you look, endless road works, a revolving array of new restaurants. Not that it's anything new for the city. As is the way with history, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
'We always knock down things,' says Howlett, 'but why do we do this? We've perhaps been doing it in recent years to try and get away from the public perception of Birmingham being a concrete jungle, but that image came about as a result of the exact same process – to knock things down and build the 'city of the future'. There's a deep rooted insecurity in the city, an identity crisis. We're constantly trying to make up for that with these grand gestures to the world. I think that crisis came about because the city grew very quickly in a relatively short amount of time, so it didn't have the time to build any kind of identity.'
In one significant way, Howlett's film is exactly like Birmingham itself – ever changing, always adding new things, not quite settling down into a final form. He expects the work in progress version to last around 45 minutes, but the end result could be considerably longer. And he doesn't exactly know when he'll even have that end result.
'It started out as this small ten minute thing and grew and grew the more I looked into things. All these new avenues keep coming up. That's why I wanted to do the work-in-progress screening, to give myself some kind of deadline. But it could go on forever…'


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015: Going the Distance with Rachel Andrew
Rachel Andrew inspires us to understand people who are not like us because most often the products we design are not for us. She motivates us with her successful habit of GTD (Getting Things Done). She teaches us that solid attention to detail and ability to execute can be more important than specific technical skills. She also proves to us that experience never gets old.
Rachel Andrew is a Web Pioneer and the Managing Director and founder of UK-based web development company EdgeOfMySeat.com. She's a prolific author of a number of Web Development books including her most recent A Book Apart published "Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout". She's also an active speaker who has spoken at a number of notable web conferences. When she's not writing code, or writing about writing code…she's a taxi to teenagers and quite a fitness buff.
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014: Design Write with Khoi Vinh
Khoi Vinh teaches us that designers can do their best work by drawing on many different sources and working on different challenges simultaneously. A big fan of breaking large problems up into actionable chunks and making lists of all those things that need to get done, Vinh enjoys articulating the value of the design process to colleagues and executives. And for a guy with his hand in some of the latest new software tools for mobile, his advice for getting better at your design may surprise you: write.
Khoi Vinh (Mr. Subtraction) is an experience designer, prolific blogger, and the Principal Designer at Adobe. He has already and continues to make huge impacts in the creation of tools and methods toward designing on-the-go using mobile devices. He's the former New York Times Design Director and one of the 50 most influential designers in America according to Fast Company. He's also an author who's written books like "Ordering Disorder", "Grid Principles For Web Design", and recently released "How They Got There" that interviews top designers and how they got where they are which is a great parallel and compliment to this show.
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013: Practice What You Do with Dan Mall
Dan Mall inspires us to get really good at what we do by constantly practicing it. He reminds us of the importance of work/life balance and setting the right priorities. He also reminds us that there's a big difference between being a leader and being a boss, and how great leaders are always looking for ways to serve their people. He also shares with us that the future of good UX is the same as it's always been…invisible.
Dan Mall (Vision) is the founder and Design Director of the magnificent design collaborative "SuperFriendly" based in Philadelphia where he teams up with his own Justice League of top-notch design superheroes such as Josh Clark (a.k.a. Dr. Touch) and Brad Frost. He's the author of A Book Apart published "Pricing Design". He's been the Design Director at Big Spaceship, Interactive Director at Happy Cog, technical editor for A List Apart, and singer/keyboard player for contemporary-Christian band Four24. He has a passion for playing matchmaker between surprising art direction and intuitive interaction design. His most significant role I'd wager is as an enthralled husband and Dad.
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012: You Can Only Keep What You Have if You're Willing to Give it Away with KaL MichaeL
KaL MichaeL teaches us that empathy is less of something we practice and more of a result of patience and perseverance. He challenges us to remain humble enough to know that we do not know everything, and what we don't know will always far surpass what we do know. He also encourages us to own our skill sets and to not do anything blindly like following trends for the sake of trends.
KaL is a passionate UI and Experience Designer and has been affecting change and improving lives through his design work for the past 14 years. Five and a half of those years were spent as Lead Creative at Apple improving the retail corporate site experience and building internal sites for enhanced communications. He's utilized his expertise in iOS and Mac design solutions through his design of the award-winning PDF Expert app. He also has a meticulous attention to detail always remains open and teachable in advancing the tech industry. One way he's doing that is through his work as a Mentor with Cascade SF.
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010: Pay Attention to the Unseen with Jeff Barnaby
Jeff Barnaby inspires us to pay attention to the unseen and always keep it simple. He shares with us that organization is the most important factor to success. He also encourages us to keep ourselves and our clients educated and that ours and our clients personal preferences should come last and our users' should come first.
Jeff Barnaby (Incognito) is a Creative Director, UI Designer, Web Developer and branding aficionado, He's the man behind the powerful UX Design and creative agency Brandhorse based in Los Angeles. California. He's also quite the chef and always a sharp-dressed man.
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NFL Week 5: A Look Ahead
Erik Gibbs
Monday Night Football gave fans two games to choose from, and neither resulted in anything other than what was expected. The Green Bay Packers didn't have any trouble with the Atlanta Falcons and the Kansas City Chiefs made easy work of the New England Patriots.
Both winners from last night are now 4-0 on the season, and the weeks are quickly passing by. Heading into Week 5, now that the Tennessee Titans seem have to have their COVID-19 outbreak under control, there are bound to be some lineup changes on teams looking to stay in the hunt for the postseason.
The Texans Need A New Leader
The Houston Texans have gotten off to a bad start this year, putting up nothing but losses across the team's first four games. That has already cost head coach Bill O'Brien his job, having been handed his walking papers yesterday. Coming off three winning seasons, it shouldn't have been too difficult to keep the momentum going, especially with J.J. Watt and Deshaun Watson on the team, but O'Brien couldn't find his grove.
The Texans finished first in the South in the past five years under O'Brien, but could never make it further. Their only losing record was in 2017, when they went 4-12. Romeo Crennel will now try to pick up the pieces of the current season as interim head coach; however, no one should expect any miracles. It's going to take a lot for the Texans to turn their season around.
The Browns Wake Up
The Cleveland Browns have gotten off to a good start this season. They're 3-1 and the offense is showing signs of becoming a dominating force in the league. Against the Dallas Cowboys, quarterback Baker Mayfield only threw for 165 yards; however, the running game has proven to be unstoppable and, as long as Odell Beckham, Jr. keep doing what he's been doing, the Browns are going to have a very successful season.
The Browns play the Indianapolis Colts this weekend and are ready for the challenge. Cleveland averaged 7.7 yards on the ground against Dallas, while Indianapolis averages only 2.7 yards. Expect another ground game out of the Browns.
The Eagles Look For Some Assistance
The Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend and are in need of some help. Starting the season 1-2-1, they take on a 3-0 team that had to miss Week 4 because of the Titans' COVID-19 issues. The Steelers will come in well-rested, while the Eagles are possibly going to be down five players due to injury. Three wide receivers are questionable for the game, which means the Eagles offense is in a bad spot. It's possible that the players will be able to make the game, but it shouldn't be expected.
The Panthers Show Signs Of Life
The Carolina Panthers got off to a rocky start this season, dropping their first two games to the Las Vegas Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. However, in both games, they showed a lot of excellent plays and, with Teddy Bridgewater in at quarterback, the Panthers have a shot of developing strength. They are now on a winning streak and meet the 0-4 Falcons this weekend. A third straight win could set them up to produce great things for the rest of the season.
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Because of the COVID-19 outbreak with the Titans, the league has laid down the law. It expects strict adherence to health policies and no excuses will be accepted. The coronavirus has already forced schedules to be altered in order to try to maintain order, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants teams to step up and act more responsibility.
He issued an ultimatum yesterday that affects all teams, asserting, "Protocol violations that result in virus spread requiring adjustments to the schedule or otherwise impacting other teams will result in additional financial and competitive discipline, including the adjustment or loss of draft choices or even the forfeit of a game. Simply put, compliance is mandatory. Now is the time to recommit ourselves to our protocols and best practices for the duration of the season."
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Erik is a writer and a sports nut who has had the good fortune to be able to experience a wide variety of world sports action up close and personal. He enjoys staying on top of the changing world of athletics and capitalizing on his writing skills to offer a unique take on what's going on in the ever-changing athletics ecosystem.
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Give your life for something that is Larger than life.
Does your soul crave and ache for something more than what you've been doing?
You might need to commit to something that's larger than life.
What do I mean by something that's larger than life?
I'm not talking about something that's flashy or attracts thousands of people or makes you look like a superstar.
What I mean by larger than life is something that you're willing to give your life in exchange for.
Typically somebody doesn't trade something of greater value for something of lesser value.
That's called getting a bad deal.
Whenever it comes down to spending time or using your skills and resources for something your mind will automatically way out the gains.
You ask yourself, is this worth giving my life for?
Every day you are giving your life away. The question is, are you giving it to something worthy.
As Christians, we not only have what's larger than life, we have the giver of life. Do you believe that though?
As a Christian do you really believe that God is larger than life?
If you do then He is a worthy cause to exchange your life for. If you're not then you really don't believe it -actions reveal belief.
In other words the gospel is larger than life. It is something worth giving your life in exchange for. So if you're not giving your life for the gospel to do you really believe its claims?
There is a God that is larger than life with a calling for your life that is large than life. Spend your life pursuing Him and His will. Don't take the bad deal. Don't give up some with greater value for something of lesser value.
What God has in store far outweighs anything this world has to offer.
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Q: How to count executed queries during selenium test? I have tried this below mentioned code, but it didn't work for me.
class SeleniumTest(LiveServerTestCase):
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        super().setUpClass()
        cls.driver = PhantomJS()

    @override_settings(DEBUG=True)
    def test_queries(self)
        with self.assertNumQueries(10):
            self.driver.get(self.live_server_url + "/page-with-10-queries")

Output:
query['sql'] for query in self.captured_queries

AssertionError: 0 != 10 : 0 queries executed, 10 expected

Captured queries were:

A: To test the queries generated by a view, I use the following code:
def test_queries(self):
    with self.assertNumQueries(3):
        found = self.client.get(reverse('<url name>'))
        print(found)  # This is the line that initiates the Lazy query

The following is a not tested suggestion but if you insist on using selenium you may try:
@override_settings(DEBUG=True)
def test_queries(self)
    with self.assertNumQueries(10):
        found = self.driver.get(self.live_server_url + "/page-with-10-queries")
        print(found)  # Just an idea

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Will the Next Generation Cherish Freedom?
We have every reason to be concerned for our future and whether they will carry on the fight for freedom. My experience as I have talked with thousands of high school and college students is one that many Americans would not necessarily be astonished by. Most of our young people don't have a clue about the great American experiment that they are apart of. That's the bad news.
The good news is that once our children hear the "other side," there is an awakening that takes place. Suddenly, these young people have the capacity to give us hope. They believe in America. They understand why limited government is essential to the freedom. Without question, our young people in this country hold the capacity to right this unconstitutional runaway train. There are few things I believe more strongly than this.
So, how do we get there?
I continue to hear the mantra that we want to get the young people involved, but we often wonder why they are missing in action. The answer is simple. We are not presenting them with those things that make it important to them.
As far as young America is concerned, their initial impressions revolve around believing that cradle to grave security provided by big government is just fine. And society hasn't really taught them anything different.
Think about the following questions, followed by some typical responses of our young people.
Separation of powers?
Division of authority?
Constitution?
"Old, dead white men."
Popular sovereignty?
"Fancy word."
Republican form of government?
"Nah, we live in a democracy."
"Well, I'm fine. I ain't got no complaints."
I am convinced that our young people don't understand the "why" of America because we've spent so much of our time in civics just teaching them about the "what" and the "how." Of course, human beings buy the "why" and they couldn't care about much less, at least at the inception of the sales or learning process.
How about letting our children experience events like the 1776 crossing of the Delaware, for example? In my own family, we celebrate that historical event by jumping into a "cold" pool or running barefoot through the snow on Christmas Eve, which is the time frame of this pivotal battle. And why is this event so important? Because 1/3 of our soldiers had no shoes, they believed in the intangible of freedom, and we're willing to fight for it even if it was unpopular or uncomfortable.
The rising generation must experience this, and my own children have a deep sense of appreciation for the founding generation because of these emotional teaching moments. The idea of America must first touch their hearts before they'll contemplate it seriously in their minds.
There is something refreshing about watching Americans wake up, especially when you make freedom and an overbearing government up close and personal. We can make these things relevant one step at a time. And then we can discuss limited government. Now, we can discuss why we cannot allow power to be concentrated into one branch of government. Now we can discuss what it truly means to be free.
We have a lot of work to do, but I am convinced that, as we build relationships with the future of America, the tide will quickly shift. Not only do I believe this. I know it. Experience is an incredible master.
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Q: Antlr - mismatched input error - token not recognised I have the following ANTLR grammar.
grammar DDGrammar;

ddstmt: dd2 EOF;

dd2: splddstart inlinerec;
splddstart: '//' NAME DDWORD '*' NL;
inlinerec: NON_JCL_CARD* END_OF_FILE ;

DDWORD:'DD';
//DUMMYWORD: 'DUMMY';

NAME: [A-Z@#$]+;

NON_JCL_CARD  : ~'/'  {getCharPositionInLine() == 1}? .*? ( NL | EOF ) ;
END_OF_FILE   : '/'  {getCharPositionInLine() == 1}? '*' ;

NL  : '\r' '\n' ;
WS  : [ \t]+ -> skip ;

For the input :
//SYSIN    DD  *
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INCLUDE COND
any other program input @ $ ! & %
/*

I get the following error.
DDGrammar::ddstmt:1:2: mismatched input 'SYSIN    DD  *     \r\n' expecting NAME
Looks like SYSIN is not recognised as a NAME token. Actually a similar grammar did work sometime back. See mismatched input error. But now the same doesnt seem to work for me.

A: My guess is that you didn't regenerate the parser/lexer classes since the following code works just fine:
String source = "//SYSIN    DD  *     \r\n" +
        "SORT FIELDS=COPY\r\n" +
        "INCLUDE COND\r\n" +
        "any other program input @ $ ! & %\r\n" +
        "/*";

DDGrammarLexer lexer = new DDGrammarLexer(CharStreams.fromString(source));
DDGrammarParser parser = new DDGrammarParser(new CommonTokenStream(lexer));

parser.ddstmt();

A: JCL is painful to parse because of it's context sensitivity and the significance of whitspace.
Handling instream data is particularly thorny - there are a few optionals in there that can throw things out if you are not aware of them.
For example, there are some optional keywords that may appear after DD * (or DD DATA); these may or may not appear on the same physical line as the DD statement itself.  Another is that the delimiter can be other than "/*" if the optional "DLM=" operator is used in the instream DD statement.  I needed a pretty nasty Java function to handle the variability, which is never recommended.


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Published Sep 13 2011, 06:33 PM by Peter Keough
As a female writer struggling with domestic woes, Margot in Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" had it pretty easy. Consider Eva, played by Tilda Swinton, in another film by a non-American, female filmmaker, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of the Lionel Shriver novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin." A free-spirited travel writer, Eva opts to have a child, the Kevin of the title (played by Ezra Miller as a teenager).
Yikes. As they said in "Rosemary's Baby," he's got his father's eyes, and I don't mean the lunk-headed biological dad played by John C. Riley. Baby Kevin lies on the malevolence spectrum somewhere between "Damien Omen Two" and "It Lives." At first it's the continual crying, the refusal to be toilet trained, and the malicious hostility at a younger sister, that makes you think the kid's not right. And then it's mass murder. If you're pondering having a family, or even if you already have one, this might not be the best movie to see. Or maybe it is.
So what do you do when your only child massacres a number of his fellow students? Do you still love him? What if you never loved him at all? And was your not loving him, even resenting him because he stunted your lifestyle, the reason for his wickedness? Certainly Eva's victimized neighbors think so, as they persecute and ostracize her, throwing red paint on her house and her car and cold cocking her on the jaw one day while she's skulking home from work.
There's a lot of red imagery in "Kevin," from the opening scene of Eva in her carefree travel writing days being absorbed into the pulpy mass of the annual "Running of the Tomatoes" at the La Tomatina Tomato Festival in Spain - a mush pit, as it were
- to Kevin's revolting appetite for ketchup and raspberry jam. I won't even talk about the guinea pig. But by the time it gets to a supermarket display of thousands of stacked tomato soup cans I thought it was getting to be too much.
I had a few other questions about the film which Tilda Swinton was kind enough to respond to when I interviewed her.
First, I asked her if she had warm memories of the Tomato Festival.
"Several thousand people were there, drunk, had been there since the day before." she recalled. "The smell from rancid tomatoes, sweat, piss, and - let's face it -testosterone, is a heady mix."
Nonetheless, the scene was essential because it captured a key element of Eva's character.
"It was her identity," she explained, "her sense of herself before she got pregnant. That whole sense of her wanting to be a world traveler is an important part of her resistance to what happens when she became pregnant. She's constantly looking over the shoulder of her life at some far off Patagonian hill. Of course the person who first picks that up is her son."
At the same time, the mother picks up on something in the child. Not that he's her antagonist, but that he is in fact her reflection.
"I think one of the tragedies in the story is how close the apple falls from the tree," she said. "The worst thing for her is not that she looks at his misanthropy, violence, and his alienation and thinks, 'I don't know what this is, this is truly foreign.' The worst thing is that she looks at him and sees herself and she's repelled by it."
Be that as it may, wasn't the kid just pure evil? I asked. I mean, look at his eyes..
"That's her fantasy," Swinton said. "The whole thing is through her eyes. So who knows what he really was. His father would tell you he was a good little boy. True, he's thick as a brick.
But I'm not going to tell you who's right because it's irrelevant. It's all a mess."
Some people find Eva's lack of maternal aptitude appalling, if not implausible. Swinton herself is the mother of twins. Shortly after giving birth to them in 1997 she joked with her agent that the next project she wanted to do was "Medea." She can understand what Eva went through, even though she didn't have the same experience.
"I was up for it," she said. "When my children were born I remember noticing how much I really liked them. I was relieved that I felt that way, which was a surprise to me because I probably assumed that it would have come quite naturally. Something in my unconscious noticed that it might have gone the other way. That it was possible to look at your newborn child and not have that connection. And there are so many people who not only don't have that experience as parents, but also have that experience as children."
No wonder Eva sees red.
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Qudian Inc. (NYSE: QD) just cannot catch a break. After suffering share price declines for the better part of two weeks running, the Chinese online small consumer credit provider got hit with another decline Friday -- shares down 16.3% as of 10:30 a.m. EST -- after investment banker Macquarie cut its price target on the stock by one-third, citing tightening restrictions on Qudian's ability to earn a profit.
As TheFly.com tells us in a report this morning, financial firm Alipay provides "two-thirds of Qudian's loans facilitated," but Alipay has instructed Qudian and its peers to charge interest rates of no more than 24% on loans funded with monies from Alipay, effective at the end of this month.
Don't look now, but Qudian's stock price is "waning" again this morning. Image source: Getty Images.
So here's the problem: Up until now, Qudian has been charging its customers interest rates on Alipay-sourced loans of as much as 34% on average. The reductions being demanded by Alipay thus threaten to cut the profitability of Qudian's services by as much as 30%.
Macquarie notes that Qudian can still charge high interest rates on loans derived from other sources -- rates as high as 36%. Still, with the bulk of Qudian's business hamstrung by Alipay's edict, Qudian could face a steep decline in its profits.
Macquarie is responding to this development by cutting its forward earnings estimates for Qudian by 8% this year, 23% in 2018, 32% in 2019, and 39% in 2020.
Granted, these are pretty far-out forecasts for a situation that's changing by the day, and that could change back in Qudian's favor just as easily as it has shifted against the company. Nonetheless, the Alipay news, and Macquarie's response to it, are spooking investors -- and that's why Qudian stock is down today.


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a. There is no appeal by either the taxpayer or the IRS from a decision of the Small Cases Division of the U.S. Tax Court. b. The first appeal would be to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Further appeal would be to the U.S. Supreme Court. c. Same as b. above. d. The appeal would be to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the U.S. Supreme Court. Concept Summary 2.1: Federal Judicial System: Trial Courts Issue U.S. Tax Court U.S. District Court U.S. Court of Federal Claims Number of judges per court 19 * Varies 16 Payment of deficiency before trial No Yes Yes Jury trial available No Yes No 2
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