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r"""Evaluation executable for detection data.

This executable evaluates precomputed detections produced by a detection
model and writes the evaluation results into csv file metrics.csv, stored
in the directory, specified by --eval_dir.

The evaluation metrics set is supplied in object_detection.protos.EvalConfig
in metrics_set field.
Currently two set of metrics are supported:
- pascal_voc_metrics: standard PASCAL VOC 2007 metric
- open_images_detection_metrics: Open Image V2 metric
All other field of object_detection.protos.EvalConfig are ignored.

Example usage:
    ./compute_metrics \
        --eval_dir=path/to/eval_dir \
        --eval_config_path=path/to/evaluation/configuration/file \
        --input_config_path=path/to/input/configuration/file
"""
import csv
import os
import re
import tensorflow as tf

from object_detection import evaluator
from object_detection.core import standard_fields
from object_detection.metrics import tf_example_parser
from object_detection.utils import config_util
from object_detection.utils import label_map_util

flags = tf.app.flags
tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.INFO)

flags.DEFINE_string('eval_dir', None, 'Directory to write eval summaries to.')
flags.DEFINE_string('eval_config_path', None,
                    'Path to an eval_pb2.EvalConfig config file.')
flags.DEFINE_string('input_config_path', None,
                    'Path to an eval_pb2.InputConfig config file.')

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

def _generate_sharded_filenames(filename):
  m = re.search(r'@(\d{1,})', filename)
  if m:
    num_shards = int(m.group(1))
    return [
        re.sub(r'@(\d{1,})', '-%.5d-of-%.5d' % (i, num_shards), filename)
        for i in range(num_shards)
    ]
  else:
    return [filename]

def _generate_filenames(filenames):
  result = []
  for filename in filenames:
    result += _generate_sharded_filenames(filename)
  return result

def read_data_and_evaluate(input_config, eval_config):
  """Reads pre-computed object detections and groundtruth from tf_record.

  Args:
    input_config: input config proto of type
      object_detection.protos.InputReader.
    eval_config: evaluation config proto of type
      object_detection.protos.EvalConfig.

  Returns:
    Evaluated detections metrics.

  Raises:
    ValueError: if input_reader type is not supported or metric type is unknown.
  """
  if input_config.WhichOneof('input_reader') == 'tf_record_input_reader':
    input_paths = input_config.tf_record_input_reader.input_path

    label_map = label_map_util.load_labelmap(input_config.label_map_path)
    max_num_classes = max([item.id for item in label_map.item])
    categories = label_map_util.convert_label_map_to_categories(
        label_map, max_num_classes)

    object_detection_evaluators = evaluator.get_evaluators(
        eval_config, categories)
    # Support a single evaluator
    object_detection_evaluator = object_detection_evaluators[0]

    skipped_images = 0
    processed_images = 0
    for input_path in _generate_filenames(input_paths):
      tf.logging.info('Processing file: {0}'.format(input_path))

      record_iterator = tf.python_io.tf_record_iterator(path=input_path)
      data_parser = tf_example_parser.TfExampleDetectionAndGTParser()

      for string_record in record_iterator:
        tf.logging.log_every_n(tf.logging.INFO, 'Processed %d images...', 1000,
                               processed_images)
        processed_images += 1

        example = tf.train.Example()
        example.ParseFromString(string_record)
        decoded_dict = data_parser.parse(example)

        if decoded_dict:
          object_detection_evaluator.add_single_ground_truth_image_info(
              decoded_dict[standard_fields.DetectionResultFields.key],
              decoded_dict)
          object_detection_evaluator.add_single_detected_image_info(
              decoded_dict[standard_fields.DetectionResultFields.key],
              decoded_dict)
        else:
          skipped_images += 1
          tf.logging.info('Skipped images: {0}'.format(skipped_images))

    return object_detection_evaluator.evaluate()

  raise ValueError('Unsupported input_reader_config.')

def write_metrics(metrics, output_dir):
  """Write metrics to the output directory.

  Args:
    metrics: A dictionary containing metric names and values.
    output_dir: Directory to write metrics to.
  """
  tf.logging.info('Writing metrics.')

  with open(os.path.join(output_dir, 'metrics.csv'), 'w') as csvfile:
    metrics_writer = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=',')
    for metric_name, metric_value in metrics.items():
      metrics_writer.writerow([metric_name, str(metric_value)])

def main(argv):
  del argv
  required_flags = ['input_config_path', 'eval_config_path', 'eval_dir']
  for flag_name in required_flags:
    if not getattr(FLAGS, flag_name):
      raise ValueError('Flag --{} is required'.format(flag_name))

  configs = config_util.get_configs_from_multiple_files(
      eval_input_config_path=FLAGS.input_config_path,
      eval_config_path=FLAGS.eval_config_path)

  eval_config = configs['eval_config']
  input_config = configs['eval_input_config']

  metrics = read_data_and_evaluate(input_config, eval_config)

  # Save metrics
  write_metrics(metrics, FLAGS.eval_dir)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.app.run(main)


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Arrange songs for radio play and club remixes using four different digital audio workstations: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason.
- Hi, I'm Josh Harris and welcome to Remixing Techniques, Arranging and Song Form. In this course I will take you through the arranging process for a radio mix, club mix, and a radio edit of the club mix. I will also show you how to create what I like to call ear candy, those exciting moments and parts that give an arrangement a finished feel. I will do this in four different digital audio workstations, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, and Reason. I'll start by listening to the original version of the song.
? But I'm waiting ? I'm waiting in the road ? And then creating a sketch arrangement, which will help determine the musical direction. ? I'm waiting ? Next, I will develop drums, bass, and keyboard parts and then complete the arranging process. (music playing) And finally, I will mix down the finished arrangement for each song. If you're someone who has felt challenge by the arranging process, then this course should provide you with invaluable insight into this part of the track-making process.
So if you're ready, let's get started with Remixing Techniques, Arranging and Song Form.
In this course, author Josh Harris shows how to create radio and club arrangements, and a radio edit of a club mix. He utilizes four different digital audio workstations (DAWs)—Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason—and shows how to build different arrangements from the ground up, by adding guitars, drums, bass, and synths. Each DAW explores different types of arranging scenarios. Plus, learn how to add ear candy and take your arrangements to another level.
Reviewing the different types of arranging: music, remix, and radio/club
Referencing a previous version of the song
Listening to stems
Creating a sketch arrangement
Adding synths and guitars
Developing the drums and bass
Using time stretching
Creating a radio edit from a club mix
Adding special effects like drum fills and delays
Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching
with Josh Harris
Pro Tools: Music Editing for TV and Film
with Skye Lewin
What you should know before watching this course
Why did we record this course in four different DAWs?
1. Arranging: An Overview
A general overview of musical arranging
An overview of remix arranging
An overview of radio and club arranging
2. Arranging for the Radio
Referencing the original or demo version of the song
Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction
Adding synths
Adding guitars
Arranging the rest of the song
3. Arranging for the Club
Time stretching stems and creating a sketch arrangement
Working from the hype backwards
4. Creating a Radio Edit from a Club Mix
Trimming down the club version
Identifying arrangement changes within the body of the song
Listening through the final arrangement
5. Adding Arrangement Ear Candy
Adding a vocoder
Adding filtered delays to vocals
Adding drum fills
6. Final Listens
Listening through the final radio mix
Listening through the final club mix
Listening through the final radio edit
Final thoughts and next steps
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Since the issue with the 7 day album display was sorted, I have noticed that all the albums I scrobble from that are either Various Artists, Compilations etc. are no longer displaying any play counts.
For example Seal - Crazy from the Various Artist / Compilation Album - Awesome!! If I go to the track page I get this http://www.last.fm/user/Rob_209/library/music/Seal/_/Crazy A new album page is created to look like the release Awesome!! is an album by Seal http://www.last.fm/user/Rob_209/library/music/Seal/Awesome!! which it is NOT. This is the album that it is fromhttp://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/AWESOME!! I used to have a high playcount for this album, now it is displaying Rob_209 hasn't listened to this album yet. http://www.last.fm/user/Rob_209/library/music/Various+Artists/AWESOME!!
This is happening with any album that has more than 1 artist on it.
Hope this explains the problem I & many other users are having.
Nothing weird. Official Android/iOS apps don't recognize Album Artist tag.
This is extremely frustrating for me since a lot of the music I listen to happen to be compilations as they're usually my go-to source for discovering new music. I do have a large library and it's disappointing to check the 'listeners you know' tab on all of those artists' pages (over 6.000 artists!) which I've scrobbled off compilations and not see myself among the listeners as if I had never scrobbled them. Please, staff, work harder on fixing this - stats-related issues like this one should be priority.
Hi K, the work to fix this has already been completed and should take effect when we deploy the new scrobble storage / user library system. That was supposed to be happening over the course of this month, but some last minute bugs have pushed the release back. Sorry I know it's frustrating, but it shouldn't be much longer now.
I managed to find a workaround when it comes to these compilations. If you type Various Artists in the album artist field in the advanced tag editor, the database recognizes VA compilations. I did this with several VA compilations such as 100 movie hits, and Dirty Dancing soundtrack. The database recognized them, and he flagged that I listened to them several times. The only issue is that he didn't flag my activities on the main Various Artists page. I still need to find out how to fix that.
I'm glad this is seemingly working for you but I've had my Album Artist field set as "Various Artists" for a while now and it doesn't help on this matter, annoyingly. Similarly, leaving it blank or ticking the "compilation" box makes no difference.
I can't wait for this to be fixed because it's highly frustrating to know that every time I listen to tracks from a compilation, I'll need to delete and manually resubmit using the Universal Scrobbler.
I can feel your pain, and trust me it's frustrating. I cannot wait to see that new database and a library until Christmas.
As far as I am aware, the Various Artists page will not get a play count added to it as they are not the artist on a Various Artists album / compilation. A play count will go to whatever artist / song has been played from the VA album & the album itself. I have VA album play counts going up all the time. my only beef now is how VA albums appear in my Charts / Library, where the Album Artist field is not displayed.
What are you using for scrobbling Elliot ? I use Foobar 2000 & have no problem scrobbling VA, just how they appear in charts.
@Rob_209 I just use the official Last FM scrobbler with iTunes (on Windows for my PC and iOS on my phone). I don't understand why it doesn't scrobble correctly when my tag info is exactly the same info I put into The Universal Scrobbler, which when submitted, gets scrobbled correctly.
Rob, do your Various Artist albums actually get grouped together or are you getting separate entries for each contributing artist?
This isn't even exclusively a problem with Various Artists, though. if the Artist field doesn't match the Album Artist field then this error occurs. For example, Diana Ross' greatest hits album, Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross, has tracks on there correctly labelled from her time as part of The Supremes, but if I play the album then those particular tracks scrobble under .../The Supremes/Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross, rather than .../Diana Ross/Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross., even though the file tags tell it to do otherwise. It's really quite annoying.
This sort of glitch suggests to me that the problem is with how the scrobbler interfaces with iTunes. I wonder if someone from the Last FM team can confirm if the latest versions actually read the Album Artist info, because that seems the most likely problem....and I would have thought a fairly simple solution.
I'm using AIMP since it has an advanced tag editor that helps me to add accurate information in ID3 audio tags. I listened to several Various Artists albums as I mentioned them in my previous comment. It works, but partially. I still haven't figured out how to make my account and total listening count appear on Various Artists page as it appears on Various Artists album page. I still need to find a way how to fix that and make it works. Wish me good luck.
That's weird, it should (and it does using the same scrobbler and windows media player). I've flagged it with our team to investigate.
Edit: I looked in the code myself, and I think the reason is because we can't get the Album Artist metadata from iTunes (it's not specified here: http://www.joshkunz.com/iTunesControl/interfaceIITTrack.html). I'm trying to get someone to confirm this as I'm not 100% certain.
@Elliot Robinson The VA albums are grouped together but appear in my charts as an album by the last artist / song scrobbled from any VA album or album where there are other artists than the title artist.
Example, I recently scrobbled https://www.last.fm/music/New+Order/_/Confusion+(Pump+Panel+Reconstruction+mix) which is from https://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/Blade but gets a playcount but........if you look in my charts it appears as I have scrobbled this album https://www.last.fm/music/New+Order/Blade totally messing up my charts & making albums appear all over the place ! I noticed the issue after the move to the new website some things have improved but the problem above is what is happening for me. Hope this sort of helps a bit.
Hopefully this will be fixed sometime on the future.
Rob, this is precisely what's happening on my end as well. Scrobbling via iTunes and the official scrobbler (the old one, v. 2.1.37) on Windows.
I'm slightly confused now, Rob. You have no problem srobbling them but they don't get listed correctly in your library? I think we're having the same issue...?
I can scrobble compilation albums, they just get scrobbled/stored on my profile in the wrong places, in multiple separate places.
If I resubmit the exact same ID-tag info, then it'll get stored correctly.
However, I do get the same issue as you, Rob, whereby the scrobbles are stored correctly (after resubmitting with TUS), but my charts imply they aren't. It always shows the albums as being by the artist of the last track I played from the album, regardless of which chart I look at (even my All Time chart).
@Jon - Thanks for looking into it. Does that mean you guys can't do anything to fix it until iTunes updates to facilitate this info?
Elliot that's correct, as far as I can tell. It looks like iTunes gives us access to the artist, album, track name, and duration, but apparently not the album artist. So for compilations you'd need to switch to a different media player.
>>>>I'm slightly confused now, Rob. You have no problem srobbling them but they don't get listed correctly in your library? I think we're having the same issue...?
To clarify, there are two different issues being discussed in this thread that have similar symptoms.
The main issue you seem to be having is that desktop client + iTunes isn't correctly sending Album Artist metadata, so you're going to see your compilation albums scrobbled under the (track's) artist name, regardless of whether you set the Album Artist ID3 tag to 'Various Artists' or not. The optional 'album artist' metadata simply isn't being sent to Last.fm because we can't read it from iTunes.
If you switch to Windows Media Player (or Foobar2000, MusicBee, Clementine, etc) - or resubmit your scrobbles with the Universal Scrobbler, it will send this metadata, however you're now going to get the issue Rob and Patrick have, which is that the website (currently) doesn't display Various Artist and soundtracks correctly in your library and profile charts. For example, no albums are listed on your various artists page in the library: https://www.last.fm/user/_/library/music/Various+Artists (there should be 44 in your case). This part of the problem should be fixed with the new scrobble database / user library, which we're now performance testing with a small percentage of users.
It looks like iTunes gives us access to the artist, album, track name, and duration, but apparently not the album artist. So for compilations you'd need to switch to a different media player.
Can't be true, Jon, since iTunes used to scrobble compilations just fine before last.fm's big update 3 years ago.
In fact, i remember i tagged one album "Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe" as its album artist, even though the entire album held only tracks by Hans Zimmer. Then, on last.fm, it would show up as "Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe" in my album library (but with 0 scrobbles in the track pages). Weird behaviour indeed, but proof that the album artist field was transmitted.
This part of the problem should be fixed with the new scrobble database / user library, which we're now performance testing with a small percentage of users.
This is good to hear, Jon!
I feel I should reiterate that I'm also having this issue with the iOS scrobbler and iTunes library on my iPhone (5s, if that makes any difference).
Hopefully you guys will be able to fix this issue with iTunes soon.
Not necessarily, rotane. I'm no programmer but I can imagine that 3 years ago iTunes was a very different piece of software. Things change, especially with big pieces of software like iTunes. However, you're right that this hasn't always been a problem.
@Elliot It's always possible that iTunes changed, i hadn't considered that!
Album artist is clearly there.
When the old site existed, we didn't have to worry will we have issues with VA compilations or not. When a mass update occurred three years ago, we started having many issues with these VA compilations.
>>>Can't be true, Jon, since iTunes used to scrobble compilations just fine before last.fm's big update 3 years ago.
As far as I can see, it has no parameter for album artist. When time permits, I'll check the code for the old desktop scrobbler to see if it got this data from itunes and if so how.
But we're getting way off track here guys.


One of the United States' leading doctors reveals how chemotherapy is killing cancer patients.
One of America's leading doctors has come forward to reveal that cancer patients in the United States are actually being killed by chemotherapy, rather than the disease itself.
There are over 14 million people dealing with cancer in the US, and the unfortunate reality is more people are dying from the chemotherapy given by physicians than the disease itself.
Chemotherapy is actually nothing more than poisonous chemicals and they don't do anything except help people sick die a slow and painful death.
Sadly, it is a sad truth that the cancer market is an industry similar to all the others, and its mechanism works just to garner huge profits.
This means every time a patient agrees to undergo conventional treatment, all the medical professionals, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other essential stakeholders of the industry make money.
Most treatments involve injecting chemotherapy toxic substances into the body, infiltrating the body with ionizing radiation or cutting off body parts; in some cases a mix of all three.
Medical professionals will lie to you, telling you that you are fighting the illness.
But the reality is, you are just buying yourself a little extra time.
However, after a while, these results will disappear and you will die a more agonizing death than the one that cancer would have caused.
A previous teacher of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Hardin B. Jones studied the life expectancy of cancer clients for more than 25 years.
Then, eventually, he concluded that regardless of common belief, chemotherapy does not work.
Treating cancer patients is a billion dollar industry.
He discovered that the majority of people who were treated with chemotherapy died an awful death.
He has actually made it known publicly that this news is intentionally kept a trick by the cancer industry due to the fact that billions of dollars are put into this plan.
"Individuals who refused chemotherapy treatment survive on typical 12 and a half years longer than individuals who are going through chemotherapy," stated Dr. Jones in his study, which was published in the New York City Academy of Science.
"Clients with breast cancer who decline standard therapy live 4 times longer than those who follow the system.
Cancer treatment cost between $300,000-$1,000,000 per treatment.
Is anything causing alarm bells or raising any red flags here people?


A new report on Central Ohio's economy shows the region gained more than 9,000 jobs in early 2012. The group, Columbus 2020, says despite the additional jobs the region's unemployment rate increased from 6.8% to 7% percent as more discouraged workers give up their job search.
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African American pastors, activists, and academics continue to wrestle with the complicated subject of gay marriage and the President's newly-announced stance.
Ohio Senate bill would create a pilot program that would tie welfare benefits to clean drug tests.
The Republican-controlled Ohio Senate is nearing approval of a pilot program that would tie welfare benefits to clean drug tests.
All drivers also would be banned from texting, though young drivers could more easily be pulled over for the offense.
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211: Solutions for Stem Cell Botox & Sexual Dysfunction
March 9, 2018 // by Dr. Daniel Pompa, PSc.D
Transcript of Episode 211: Solutions for Stem Cell Botox & Sexual Dysfunction
With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Amy Killen
Hey. We are live, here with a -inaudible- topic. Okay, so ladies, you're going to get something in this show, I promise you, but this show is titled Erectile Dysfunction. Okay, but I didn't say that, meaning it in a really funny way, like you're going to get something because the show is titled Erectile Dysfunction. We're going to talk about stem cell and beauty, too, so hang on there, because I am not a Botox fan, and this is the only thing that I would actually allow my wife to have.
Dr. Dr. Killen Killen, she is a board-certified—she was board-certified in emergency medicine, which I actually have a lot of respect for, and now you've been practicing anti-aging and regenerative medicine for the last five years, so this is how we got onto this topic. She incorporates integrative health practices in restoring health, and this is what she does. She also addresses this issue of sexual dysfunction with a really unique way, and we're not talking about little, blue pills here, are we? Dr. Dr. Killen, thank you for being with us.
Dr. Killen:
Hi. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be here.
Yeah. Now, we're not talking about little, blue pills. There's something much safer and actually amazing, and so many people really aren't aware of this, so GAINSWave. Tell us about this new procedure. Tell us about what this is, and let me start here, though. Let me back up, because you told me a statistic at the top of the show, that 40 percent of men over the age of 40 actually have some erectile dysfunction, and then it goes kind of ten percent every decade. Is that correct?
Yes. That's right. Yeah. It's actually a lot more common than we think.
Yeah, and with that said, I said immediately, well, people are reaching for Viagra and other solutions like drugs, but there's great consequences to that. I would never touch it, but yet this is a simple, safe solution that I would say I bet you very few, if anybody, has heard of, watching this, and I believe it works better. GAINSWave, talk about it. Just give them a brief introduction.
Okay, so GAINSWave is a low-intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy with just the fancy, long name for essentially using soundwaves and putting the soundwaves down into the tissue, into the penis, and those soundwaves can cause a little bit of trauma that then increases blood flow, so it increases blood vessel formation and repairs the blood vessels that you already have. In the end, essentially, you have increased blood flow going into the penis and staying there where it's supposed to, and you can have improvement in symptoms.
Yeah, okay, so how quick should it work? How many treatments should you get?
For most people, we recommend about six treatments to start with, and each treatment is super easy, painless, no downtime, about a 30- to 45-minute office kind of procedure. We recommend six over about three weeks, and then we may repeat that and do another six later on if you have more severe symptoms, but people start to see benefit even after three or four treatments sometimes.
If people take the Viagra or the med, I don't know the whole statistics on how that works. I've never been down that road, thank God. However, how does this compare as far as effectiveness than that?
It's a different mechanism, for sure. Viagra and those medications work by sort of making nitric oxide work longer, which makes your blood vessels open up for a period of time, but they're not actually fixing the problem. They're just kind of getting you through the next few hours, so what GAINSWave does that's so cool is it actually gets to the root of the problem, which is the fact that you don't have as much blood flow, for most people, so you're actually repairing the blood vessels, increasing the blood flow, and then you have results that last a year or even up to two years in some cases. It's not a temporary Band-Aid kind of thing. It's actually repairing the tissue.
Yeah, that was what I was going to ask you. How long does it last? I would argue this. If people make dietary changes, do a lot of the things we talk about on this show, it's going to last a whole lot longer, because they have to—you said it. There's a cause, upstream cause, right?
I'm going to slow that down and look at that a little bit closer, because obviously age plays a role, so what is some of the major things that are causing the calcification, the slowing down of blood flow in that area and leading to this erectile dysfunction?
Almost all erectile dysfunction is a vascular problem. It's a blood flow problem. There are other causes as well, but that's the most common, so all of the things that can cause atherosclerosis and plaque can cause blood flow problems, so things like high blood sugar, diabetes, high-sugar diet, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems that are out of balance, not exercising enough. Anything that causes inflammation in your body can cause inflammation in your blood vessels, including the ones that go to and from your penis, and so we see the problems pretty early in that area of sort of bad lifestyle choices.
Right. Let me ask you this. Could a lot of people have this problem and not really know they have the problem, meaning that their performance in sex is dropping, and they just don't realize that this could actually be the problem? It's a circulation problem, driven by what you just said. Has that happened?
Yeah, absolutely. In fact, a lot of patients come in, and they're not really sure if they have problems. They're like, it works sometimes but not all the time, or I don't know if it's my relationship or if it's me. There's a lot of people kind of second-guessing themselves, but we know certainly with age, just the age itself, there's some increased risk of these kinds of things, and certainly poor lifestyle choices along the way is just going to really increase that risk significantly.
Yeah. No doubt about it. Okay, so when you described it, I went, whew.
I've never had it done, but you described something going in my penis, and immediately I was hiding pens and things. There's something about that, Dr. Dr. Killen.
It's a sensitive area.
I lost a lot of my men viewers right there. They didn't even make it to this part of the show.
Now, if they have sexual performance issues or erectile dysfunction, they're still with us. Okay, talk about this procedure, because I went on your site, and I read about GAINSWave. It is very successful, obviously, and they describe it as pain-free and simple. That doesn't sound pain-free to me, but tell us.
It is pain-free. First of all, we do a topical numbing cream to make it completely pain-free. If you didn't have the topical numbing cream, you'd feel a little zappy here and there. It's not bad, but it's kind of a little pulsation, but with the numbing cream, totally pain-free. It's not a big deal at all, but basically it's a device, and it's like a little mini-jackhammer, which I know sounds horrible, but it's not. It just kind of goes up and down really quickly onto the skin itself, and it sends these soundwaves into the penis. The shockwave therapy name does sound really scary, which I think is one of the reasons that GAINSWave—we call it GAINSWave and not shockwave therapy, because it sounds a little bit better, but there's a whole protocol that we use that's really effective but not painful at all, and there's no downtime, so you come to the office, you get the procedure done, you're done in an hour or less, and then you go to lunch or go to work or go back to exercising or having sex or whatever you want. There's literally no downtime at all, so it's nice.
I want to tell a funny story, and I'm not going to give out names, but I'll just say a friend of mine. Now, let's just say this friend of mine is definitely curious. He didn't have erectile dysfunction, but I know that people do this for performance, size, etc., so we're not going there today, but just saying, this person –
They do. Yes.
They do, because that's all actually related to blood flow, and this -inaudible-. Okay, so he had it done, and the story goes, he went to his grandma's, and let's just say he had a pop-tent the whole he was there before grandma. We hear, if you have an erection for more than four hours, call your doctor. Okay, most people would be wanting to call everyone they know -inaudible-, but anyway, that was his story. Now, he had nothing but good things to say, except his visit to grandma's, where he was hiding under the table and would stay like that. I said all that just to ask this one question -inaudible-.
Is there a certain time when maybe you don't want to go back to work, if you get that much blood flow and literally have an erection for a day to a week? I don't remember how long it lasted.
For most people, they don't have quite the same reaction that that person, who also wrote a magazine article about it, did.
Technically, I could use his name, I guess, right?
I feel like you can, but certainly your erections are still controlled by you, by your brain, by your interests, and by your environment and things like that, so it's not like it's going to cause something to happen that you don't want to happen usually.
Okay, and I can attest to this person. I've never had it done on my penis -inaudible-, but I did have it done on my neck, and it actually felt good, so after that, I wouldn't have been afraid, which brings up another topic. I know it's used for other things. It's actually approved for pain as well, correct?
Yeah, exactly. It's used a lot for musculoskeletal pain. It's been used for many years in many countries for fasciitis and tendon problems and muscle strains and all kinds of things. There's all kinds of things it's being used for now. It's used for healing ulcers, nonhealing ulcers, to increase blood flow. It's used for cardiac heart—when you have lack of blood flow to the heart, there's some studies that show it increases blood flow, so any time you need to increase blood flow, it's actually shown to be helpful in those situations.
I talked about calcium, and it -inaudible- some of the calcium. I know Peyronie's disease, and this is—actually, I don't know the specifics on this itself, but it's one of the -inaudible- get really bad to where you can't have normal sexual function.
Are they using it for that, and what's the success rate for that?
Yeah, they are. There's a number of studies that have been done, mostly in Europe, with Peyronie's disease. With Peyronie's, you get these fibrous kind of scars almost inside the penis that causes pain. It causes curving, and it can cause erectile dysfunction, so we can actually put the shockwave therapy, the GAINSWave, on the plaque itself, on the scar itself, to help break up that scar tissue, and then you would apply it to the rest of the penis just like you normally would to increase blood flow. As far as numbers, it depends on what you look at, which studies, but 50 to 60 percent of people who are having this type of therapy seem to have improvement, either in curvature or pain or ED or all of the above, and then, if you combine them with other therapies, like PRP and other things, then you may even have an even higher success rate.
Which, by the way, I wanted to—matter of fact, you can tell them how to get in touch with you and your clinic, because you do a lot of different things, so your success rate with all of this is going through the roof. How do they get in contact with them—with you, I'm sorry, and then kind of go through your procedure with even some of these more severe cases.
My name is Dr. Killen Killen, and I have two different clinics. I have Docere Medical, which is in Park City, and I do stem cell procedures up there. Then, I also have Biorestoration Medical, which is down in Salt Lake. These are both in Utah and both pretty easy to get to, and I do the GAINSWave as well as PRP down there, so I kind of do a little different things at each clinic, but they're pretty close to each other.
Yeah. Ladies, we're going to talk about some of this better than Botox stuff, too, because you also do that, but yeah, it's nice about where you are, because people can fly in, and you're literally 20 minutes from the airport.
Yeah, it's a great destination. You can come in and ski for a few days and then get your procedures done, and then you can go back home.
Hey, believe me. I live here. It's ironic, too, because I'm not interviewing because you actually live here in my town. They said, oh, you have to talk to Dr. Killen, and then I'm also interviewing Dr. Harry Adelson, who is a stem cell expert and spoke with me at Bulletproof, so that's an interview coming up, folks. You work with him on a lot of the stem cell works, too. Yeah, so he was saying to me, oh, my gosh, Dr. Dr. Killen, you're going to love her. She's adorable, so anyway, that's the kind of reputation you have. No, you have amazing work where people fly in like they do Harry, and they get this work done.
We work together, Dr. Adelson and myself. We'll have patients that will come in and kind of get this full-body makeover kind of thing with stem cells, where they'll come in, they'll get all their neck, their back, their joints treated at the same time with the same stem cells. I'll do injections in the face for facial rejuvenation and in the hair, in the penis, or in women, we do the O-Shot, which is vaginal improvements in sexual optimization for women, so we kind of work together and do all those things sort of in one sitting.
We'll shift over there, but the GAINSWave, does this have—do you use it for women vaginally or other aspects for them?
That's a good question. We're actually starting to study that, because it's a similar anatomy, obviously. The clitoris is similar to the penis. It hasn't been studied in the literature. There's not dozens of studies like there is with men on using it for women, but we've had a number of patients who seem to have good results from it, so it's something that's super safe, and I think that we'll see more of it in the future, but right now, it's still kind of in the investigation phase.
Yeah, and like I said, your procedure, the PRP, kind of explain some of the other things you do. You're doing the GAINSWave and some of these other things when it's needed.
Yeah, so I love to pair the GAINSWave with the P-Shot or Priapus-Shot, which is basically taking some –
Again, I'm just saying, these words are pretty funny. Go ahead.
It's taking some of the patient's own blood and making platelet-rich plasma from it, which is the growth factors from platelets, so we can essentially just take that blood, centrifuge it, and then we inject the platelets into the penis with a very small needle, and it's numb, and it's not a big deal. We can do that after one of the GAINSWave treatments, and so essentially you've created a little bit of this microtrauma to the penis with the GAINSWave, and then immediately you're giving these growth factors that are just going straight to the trauma site and healing it really nicely and really quickly, so that pairs really well, and I do that with almost all my patients who are getting the GAINSWave treatments. Then, we can kind of go one step above that if we want, and we can actually add stem cells or exosomes or other things like that that are giving you even more signaling power into that area with injections as well.
The other thing, too, is it was very—I thought the GAINSWave—when you look at this problem that people are having that ruins lives and relationships, I thought it was really reasonably priced, frankly. I think it's probably different for everybody, depending on what you're doing and how many treatments, but talk about that, because for me, I thought, gosh, this is a major issue that people are going to either end up on medications for how long, which are damaging, devastating, and have side effects, but talk a little bit about that.
You want to get at least six treatments for most people. The cost is about five hundred dollars per treatment, so it does cost some money, but if you look at it sort of from a long-term perspective, you're going to be getting—you have results that are going to last a year or two, and you're not necessarily having to do anything else, do any injections at home or take medications at home, and again, we're really trying to get to the root cause of the problem. It's also important to note that I don't just do these procedures and walk away. I also talk to patients, and we do sort of in-depth treatment evaluations, and we look at other things. We look at their hormones. We look at their lifestyle. We look at their inflammatory markers. We kind of go through, what are you doing that we can improve upon so that you don't have build-up of damage down the line?
Look, you were recommended as the best and the person that we needed to interview, so that's why people fly in to see you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, you earned it. Let's shift over to some of the lady things before we leave the sexual dysfunction here. What are some of the other things that you're doing? You mentioned an injection vaginally that you do. What was that? I didn't -inaudible-.
That's the O-Shot or the Orgasm-Shot for women. It's actually two injections. We do two different spots. We numb it up first, again.
It's not the P-Shot, right? Okay, so the O-Shot. Go ahead.
It's the same kind of thing for women. You're going to put the PRP, which is platelet-rich plasma, into—we do it into the clitoris itself, as well as the anterior vaginal wall, and so it can help with things like improving blood flow, improving sensation, improving—it actually can help with stress urinary incontinence, so women who kind of have a little bit of leaking when they jump up and down or sneeze. We can see improvements in that with the PRP as well and improving orgasm strength and things like that, so it's a great thing for women who are—whether they're having problems or not, just kind of improving the health of the tissue in that area, using your own body. That's the O-Shot.
Are they using this in any disease fashion as well, like cervical dysplasia, anything like that?
They're using it for lichens sclerosis. There's a few lichens sclerosis studies where you kind of get this fibrous scarring tissue in the vagina and the labia, and it seems to be effective for that. I've also seen some studies where they're using it just for stress incontinence and urge incontinence, two different types of bladder leaking that, if you inject the PRP in specific areas, you can actually increase collagen production. You can increase blood flow and sort of the health of the tissue in those areas, and also for vaginal atrophy, so women who are older, postmenopausal women who maybe don't have estrogen onboard, and they start to get a lot of dryness, which causes that vaginal skin to get really skin. This is a great thing for that, too. You can increase the blood flow, and then you have better lubrication, and you have healthier skin.
Yeah, which by the way is a huge problem. It seems like that problem's getting, again, just like all of these topics we're talking about, they're getting more pronounced, so huge solution. All right, I opened it up when talking. I hear my echo a little bit, but I don't know if it's on my end or yours, so I apologize for that, but let's talk about this -inaudible-, because I said that my wife I won't let do Botox, because I have seen negative consequences, from autoimmune to a lot of different things, so I see people with different unexplainable conditions. Botox is oftentimes, sometimes—well, this happened, and this occurred on the backside of it, so she won't do that. I don't like the way it looks anyway. That's me. All right, so with that said, why is stem cell, I think, the future? One of the things I like about it, and again, my wife has never had it, but I would allow her to do this, and you'd be the only one that I would have do it.
Oh, thank you.
You don't lose your normal face. If anything, it just increases the hydration and elasticity, so talk about that, why this is a good option.
Yeah, so it's a regenerative therapy, so again, using platelet-rich plasma, using stem cells, and we inject it into the face, and I also do microneedling, which is little needles that go in about 2 mm, so I can kind of get the skin from the outside as well as from underneath. Basically, you're stimulating your own stem cells that are already in your skin to start kind of getting back to work. You're telling them, hey, we need more collagen, we need more elastin, we need more hyaluronic acid. These are all the things that make your skin more youthful. What's great about these procedures is you're not stopping the muscles from moving, so you can still make all your expressions. You're not putting artificial fillers or things like that in your face that make your face weird shapes or things like that. It's not a facelift, so you're not tightening the skin that way, but you're actually creating healthier skin so it has improved blood flow, color, tone. You're helping with the pigment that can kind of get in the skin. It can help to increase the thickness of the skin, so in areas like under the eyes where your eyes are kind of—it's thinning out, so it's a good way to increase the health of your skin, and that helps with the way you look in the end.
Yeah, no doubt, so you know how people get the big circles under there? It helps with that?
It helps with the color and the skin thickness, so it can help because the capillaries that leak underneath there, we can kind of help with the leaking by putting the PRP and stem cells in there, and then, if you can get that skin just a little bit thicker and a little healthier, then you wouldn't see that depression as much. It doesn't do everything. Certainly, there are things like—it doesn't stop your muscles from moving, so you're still going to have wrinkling, and it doesn't provide as much volume as certain other products, but I do think it's a really nice thing to have, especially in people who are averse to using other types of therapies for their face.
Yeah, I look at Botox and those things like—again, I don't like the look, right? I don't like the health aspect, so that would be out for Merily, but I think this is actually adding health to your skin. It's the exact opposite. To me, it's not cheating. To me, it's this thing that you can turn back the clock to where you were. Maybe, I don't know. You tell me, ten, 20. What do you guess it turns back the clock on your skin?
Everybody's a little bit different. Everyone kind of has different responses. Definitely, I think, certainly five or ten years in a lot of people. The other thing that these procedures do that has been shown in animal studies, actually, it helps protect from photodamage so from sun damage going forward.
Okay, I'm a fan now.
Pretty cool, right? I know.
I'm 52 years old, so see these dark spots? -inaudible- lighten those.
As we know, sun damage is what ages our skin. That's the main thing. Other things do as well, but that's the main thing, so if we can protect from some of that oxidative damage and stress just using our own bodies and our own cells, then that, I think, is pretty awesome.
Yeah. What about some of this for hair regrowth, things like that?
Yeah, I do also hair injections, so for hair restoration, I just do some scalp injections, men and women both. Very commonly, men who have male pattern baldness will do those areas, and then sometimes women will have kind of diffuse hair loss. Maybe it's an autoimmune disorder or thyroid problem or iron problem or whatever, and I recommend treating those problems as well, but these treatments can seem to help increase the follicle activity and hair growth.
Wow. I tell you what, maybe we have some viewers, and we're going to go into more depth with Dr. Adelson, but stem cells. Talk a little bit about stem cells, because people are going, what? Tell them how they're harvested, why they're safe, why they're effective.
Stem cells are the cells in your body. You already have them. They're the cells everywhere in your body that are responsible for replication and division, so keeping your body, your organs, functioning and such. They're the cells that, as you get older, you don't have as much activity in those cells, so for instance, in your skin, the stem cells are the ones that tell the other cells to make collagen and elastin and all the things that make your skin healthy. As you get older, those cells are not as active anymore, but what we can do now with stem cell therapy is we can take stem cells from other parts of your body, so for instance, your bone marrow or your fat or other areas, and we can then kind of concentrate them and then put them somewhere else in your body.
It's basically a way to talk to the stem cells that are already in your body and give you a new dose of stem cells. Then, there are some other really cool things like exosomes, which we're starting to use in the next few months, which are sort of like the messenger part of stem cells that we can use. PRP is kind of like stem cell fertilizer, so all of it is basically trying to get your own body's stem cells to kick themselves back into action like they did when you were younger and stop being so darn lazy.
We talked about -inaudible- a little different -inaudible-. I had PRP—well, technically, it's called PRF, when I had a cavitation taken out. They put the plasma-rich fiber in there, so -inaudible- cavitation, and I also had some PRP in my neck, where I'm getting the makeovers. Harry is going to my neck, because I had a back issue years ago, and some chromosome PRP, it helped, but it still needs it, and by the way, all of you, stay tuned, because I'm going to film the whole thing.
-inaudible- with that.
You'll actually get a really cool look at—Harry goes in with camera, and you're going to see going into my discs and my back and my facet joints.
Oh, that's going to be awesome. Yeah.
Yeah, so we're going to need to do that. I've been researching the stem cell thing, I would say pretty hard, for a year and a half, where I was—things started to come out, and I kind of look at things, interview the best, talk to the best, read, and I'm convinced that it's not only safe, because that's kind of the first priority, but that it works. I mean, it really does work. It's marketable.
There's really no downside, except for you can get bruising, and you can get that kind of thing that you'd get with any injection, but it's your own body, or you're getting them from somewhere else, but they've been totally screened, and they're safe, so it's pretty cool. I think getting your body to heal itself versus taking some other medications and things to try to mask symptoms is really the medicine of the future.
Yeah, and -inaudible- meniscus on my knee years ago, and I don't have any pain. Even as I sit here now, I don't have pain, but my back, if I go skiing and do -inaudible-, just all the tissues are weakened, and Harry's like, look, that'll change, once we do your spine, and he's going to do my knees, too. That's why—the whole thing, but I'm telling you, we can turn back the clock. When I explained to my wife what it does for the skin and elastin, she was like, okay, that's the only thing I would do. I have to clarify. She doesn't get Botox because I don't allow her. She doesn't get Botox because she wouldn't, either, so just saying.
Right. We can do both of your faces and whatever else you want injected when you come see me.
Not my hair. I'm good there, but my back's a different story. I need to turn back the clock for sure. Okay, am I missing any other things that you do that you want to talk about or even that we need to talk about, even with these procedures?
I think just the idea of doing the procedures and then also looking at just general health is really important. It's really important for -inaudible-, for sexual function. You want to look at sexual function as an indicator of general health and not just sort of its own little, small thing, because we know that erectile dysfunction, for instance, is a precursor for atherosclerosis, for heart attacks, for strokes, for things like that, so it's important that we have this awesome technology that we can treat the problem, but it's also really important that the patients know why they got the problem and that this can continue, and later on, you may have other, more serious problems if we don't address what's causing it in the first place.
I'm glad you bring that to people's awareness, because okay, this is amazing technology, but you can continue to do the things that people do. You're right. Erectile dysfunction, you'll end up with a heart attack, right? -inaudible- the penis are being affected so soon are the ones -inaudible- the rest of your body, -inaudible-. By the way, this show, we feel -inaudible- talking about how toxins, lifestyle, many aspects of health, erectile dysfunction. We don't think about that being a symptom of a deeper-rooted problem.
Absolutely, and that's also true for skin care. It's true for everything that we do, essentially. You have to treat—we can do what we can at that area, but you also want to look further and deeper. Are you avoiding the sun? Are you eating right? Are you avoiding toxins? All the things that you talk to your patients and audience about, those are all important for everything, and to get the stem cells to be healthy enough to use. I don't treat patients that are smoking actively, because if they're smoking, their stem cells are not as healthy, and they're not going to be as good when I do the procedures, so just some things like that. We want to make sure that, when we get your stem cells, and we use them, or we get your PRP, and we use it, that it's good stuff, because these are procedures that you don't want to just do for no reason, so staying healthy and doing the right things is really important to make any of this work.
Yeah, one of those topics that a lot of us speak a lot about is fasting and fasting states, and I fast every day, daily fasting, so I fast for a period of time before my first meal. Then, periodically, we do longer fasts, and we know the autophagy occurs, meaning the body is so smart, it gets rid of all the bad cells in every part of the body, and then it raises up stem cells to literally create healing, and it's amazing to watch. It really is. If you do the things that we talk about on the show, but for those things that are just too damaged, like my back and my knee, that's where this can really make a massive difference. It's remarkable. For our body to produce that many stem cells is virtually impossible.
Yeah. Oh, it's amazing. It's really cool, and I feel very fortunate to be able to do this kind of medicine that's always changing in really cool directions all the time.
Look, I'm going to embarrass you a little bit. Okay, your skin looks amazing.
-inaudible- in yourself, the stem cells?
I have. I've done stem cells to myself. I had someone else get the stem cells out, and they injected them on me, because I couldn't do the injections myself. That was a couple of years ago, and I've also done PRP injections on myself, actually on myself with a needle in my own face, which is kind of tricky, and then I do other things as well as good skin care, and I make sure I wear my sunscreen. I'm also a big fan of low-level light therapy. The red light therapy for skin is amazing, so I do that whenever I can, kind of as my downtime meditation kind of thing, but yeah, so anything I do to patients, I always try to do it on myself first. I think it's important that, if it's going to work, I need to make sure that I know what it feels like and what it does.
Honestly, me, too. I won't promote something unless I've done it myself, although I -inaudible- GAINSWave. I would do it, though. I would.
There's still time. You can do it at some point.
I do the red light. We call it Joovv Light. I've interviewed them here on Cellular Healing TV, and yeah, it really does. It makes a big difference.
It's great. It's a good nitric oxide booster, too, which is good for all the things, blood flow-related things, so I'm a big -inaudible- for skin care, as well as other applications, acne prevention. It's great for that as well.
Yeah, no doubt. My kids use it for that. They're in there all the time on my Joovv Light. My wife and I, we use it every day, honestly. There's another device called a Beamer that increases circulation, -inaudible- circulation, because honestly that's the key to being healthy. That's what you're talking about. Give me your website again. How do they get in touch with you? Go ahead and give them that information again if they missed it the first time.
Doceremedical, which is D-O-C-E-R-Emedical.com, is the one for stem cells, and then I also have another one, which is biorestoration.com, and that's where I do the GAINSWave, and I do some of the hormones and other integrative therapies. Again, it's Dr. Killen, Dr. Dr. Killen Killen. Dr. Killen B. Killen is my name.
-inaudible- in the know, and she's right here. You have a Park City office in Salt Lake. Just fly just right in from the airport. Listen, it's great. You're doing great stuff. I'm telling you. My audience will absolutely love this, because it's the healthy solution. It really is, and hey, it's cutting edge. You're doing all the most cutting edge stuff. Thanks for being on the show. I appreciate it, and I'll tell Harry he was right.
Thank you so much. This was so fun.
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Q: What is the unit of measurement in Jmeter latency report I'm trying to do load test on my rest api development with Jmeter. Everything is good but I'm confused with the measurement of the result.
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Jerzy Artysz (* 18. November 1930 in Sochaczew) ist ein polnischer Sänger (Bariton).

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Artysz studierte Gesang bei Maria Halfter und Violine an der Staatlichen Musikhochschule in Warschau und setzte seine Gesangsausbildung in Mailand bei Maria Carbone fort. Er gewann Gesangswettbewerbe in Moskau (1957), Toulouse (1959) und Genf (1960). Er wirkte ab 1958 an der Opernbühne von Łódź und wurde 1964 Solist am Teatr Wielki in Warschau. Er bereiste als Sänger die ganze Welt, hatte Auftritte in Österreich, Belgien, Tschechien, Frankreich, Spanien, Deutschland, Norwegen, Portugal, der Schweiz, Schweden, Italien, der Sowjetunion, aber auch in Israel, Kanada und den Vereinigten Staaten und nahm vielfach an Festivals wie dem Warschauer Herbst teil.

Sein Opernrepertoire umfasst Hauptrollen in Werken aus der Zeit des Frühbarock bis zur Gegenwart. Er sang den Ottone in Monteverdis L'incoronazione di Poppea, die Titelrolle in Mozarts Don Giovanni und den Posa in Verdis Don Carlos ebenso wie die tragenden Baritonrollen in Richard Wagners Opern, den Golaud in Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande, die Titelrolle in Alban Bergs Wozzeck, Perl in Krzysztof Pendereckis Czarna maska und Ben in Gian Carlo Menottis The Telephone. Bei der Uraufführung der Oper Ignorant i szaleniec von Paweł Mykietyn 2001 am Teatr Wielki gab er die Partie des Vaters.

Von 1990 bis 1994 war Artysz künstlerischer Direktor der Opernschule in Barcelona. Zudem war er Professor an der Musikakademie in Warschau, wirkte an internationalen Oratorienkursen in Wrocław, Gdańsk und Bremen mit und beteiligte sich an verschiedenen Musikwettbewerben als Juror. Für seine Verdienste um die Förderung der zeitgenössischen polnischen Musik erhielt er 1980 den Preis des polnischen Komponistenverbandes und 1981 den Preis des Ministers für Kultur und Künste. Zu seinem siebzigsten Geburtstag ehrte ihn die Fryderyk-Chopin-Musikakademie (heute Fryderyk-Chopin-Universität für Musik) mit einem Galakonzert, bei dem er selbst mit einer Arie aus Monteverdis L'Orfeo auftrat.

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There's something that I've been thinking about: a smaller place to live. More specifically, tiny homes and school bus conversions.
In a country that seems to have so many McMansions, I'm starting to think that bigger isn't always better. The idea that one can live in a tiny home and be quite content catches my attention every time I see an article. Can you really live in a home so small? It must be true. Think about our ancestors. They lived in log homes that I'm guessing could have been about 400 square feet. There are those today that can make a nice tiny home anywhere from 140 to 600 square feet. Can you imagine a home today that's less that 1,000 square feet?
The next time you're on the internet, go to Pinterest and look at the pictures of tiny homes that are on there. There's plenty to look at. No empty spaces are wasted. The ideas are endless from tiny cottages that can fit in someone's back yard, on wheels so that you can move them just like a camper, tiny log cabins, and those who really think outside the box and use shipping containers to build their small home. It makes me think. "How much stuff do I really need own just to make a place a home?"
School bus conversions really catch my attention. Some of the school bus conversions and floor plans are just amazing. They look just as good as the RVs that come straight from the factory. The conversions range from the small buses up to the full length buses. I've even seen the full length buses manufactured in such a way that the front half is livable while the back half can haul a antique tractor or car.
I love the concept of "living outside the box." I just need to downsize a whole lot! I do believe that I sit on the border of having a little too much and hoarder. I have a love affair with reading. So many of my books need to go to the library if I would just stop procrastinating and do it. The same with my closet. So many clothes need to be donated, but alas, I keep procrastinating.
Needless to say, it will be a little while before I get into a tiny home. I must declutter my life first. I mean, I can't take it with me once I'm gone.


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Q: MySQL threeway triangle query I have a database of teams, schools and assignments. After choosing an assignment, the school (its users anyway) can add a team to an assignment, so that they may start working on the assignment.  The ER-diagram looks like this:

Important: Even though the setup of the database suggests otherwise, the team<-> assignment relationship is 1:N. A team can work on only one assignment. This is controlled through the ORM-system.
Now here's the catch: there are teams in the database that work on assignments which do not belong to their school: the school choose the assignment, created a team and removed their assignment choice. I need to find the schools (id, name) for which this is the case.
The best query so far that I've managed to come up with is:
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FROM schools
LEFT JOIN teams ON schools.school_id = teams.school_id
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LEFT JOIN assignment_schools ON schools.school_id = assignment_schools.school_id
WHERE assignment_teams.assignment_id != assignment_schools.assignment_id;

But it doesn't work when I checked the results manually. What's the correct query that I'm looking for?

A: One of these should work, but I have no idea which is the fastest:

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È stato direttore, fra gli altri, di «Grand Hotel» e dell'«Intrepido». Attualmente è direttore editoriale di «Sogno».

Biografia
Da ragazzo, frequenta una scuola di tipografia e rilegatura, nel collegio Fassicomo di Genova.  sul settimanale "Le vostre novelle" e successivamente collabora anche a "Novella" di Rizzoli.

A 25 anni entra nella redazione romana di "Sogno" (Edizioni Novissima, del gruppo Rizzoli) come caporedattore. Ed è questa esperienza che gli fa incontrare il fotoromanzo, a quei tempi genere popolare di grande successo (le riviste concorrenti erano "Grand Hotel" e "Bolero"). Approda alla Lancio come esperto di questo genere di narrativa.

Negli '70 Mario Sprea diventa direttore di Grand Hotel e anche dell'"Intrepido", del "Monello" e di "Ragazza In", tutti editi dalla Editrice Universo, dei fratelli Del Duca. Specializzato ormai anche nei fumetti, intraprende una nuova esperienza con "Lancio Story", prima di tornare definitivamente alla Universo, con la quale diventa anche editore di quattro testate di fotoromanzi: "Cinecolor, "Maxicolor", "Superstar", "Katiuscia".

Nel 1993 diventa editore in proprio con la Casa Editrice Sprea Editori, oggi presieduta dal figlio Luca. Nel 2020 ha riportato in edicola la rivista «Sogno» riproponendo i fotoromanzi della Lancio, alcuni dei quali scritti da lui stesso.

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Asia Pacific > Govt modelling shows minor costs from tougher Australian carbon targets
Govt modelling shows minor costs from tougher Australian carbon targets
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Australia could lift its 2030 emission reduction target to 45% with only limited impacts to the economy, and at no extra cost at all if it allows the use of international units, according to government-commissioned modelling released Friday.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott last week announced that Australia would cut its greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030 as its contribution to a new global climate change agreement.
At the same time the government has said taking on a target of around 45-60%, as proposed by the Climate Change Authority, would impose unmanageable costs to the Australian economy.
But government-commissioned modelling done by economist Warwick McKibbon released Friday showed only minor economic impacts between the targets.
The current 26% target would set back Australia's 2030 GDP by up to 0.6%, the report showed. A 35% target would mean a 0.8% reduction in GDP and a 45% target would mean a 1% smaller GDP.
Average annual real GDP growth from 2020-2030 would be 2.14% with a 26% target and 2.09% with a 45% target, it said.
"The modelling shows that Australia can easily afford to make stronger pollution reduction cuts with the economic costs between taking weak action and strong action barely noticeable," said Kellie Caught at WWF Australia.
"Our GDP would make up that small difference in growth in just a few months."
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The Abbott government has so far been adamant it will achieve its target domestically and not make use of international carbon credits, although it said last week it might reconsider during a 2017-2018 rethink of climate policy.
The McKibbon report said that assuming international units cost $5 in 2020, rising to $10 in 2030, and Australia decided to use those to meet 45% of its targeted emission cuts, it could nearly halve the cost.
The 2030 GDP impact from a 26% target would be slashed to 0.3%, and a 45% target to 0.6% of GDP – the same cost as meeting its current target solely through domestic efforts.
"As long as the price of the international units is less than the marginal cost of reducing an equivalent additional unit of emissions in Australia, the Australian economy will benefit from access to international units," the report said.
But allowing foreign offsets would also mean a slower decarbonisation of the Australian economy, it said.
"It is estimated that coal output in 2030 would be between 3 and 12 percentage points higher if international units were used towards the target, depending on the target level."


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Clement delays decision on foreign telecom ownership
Howard Solomon
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Published: November 22nd, 2010
The telecommunications industry shouldn't worry that Industry Minister Tony Clement is delaying promised reform of the country's telecommunications foreign ownership regulations, says a consultant.
"I'm really quite happy," Iain Grant, managing director of the SeaBoard Group telecommunications consultancy, said Monday after reading reports of Clement's remarks.
The minister told reporters that the government's position on new telecom foreign ownership legislation – promised for this fall – will have to hold off until it has set the rules for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction.
At the same time he said the government's digital economy strategy will be announced next spring.
"I think [telecom ownership change] will happen relatively early in 2011," Grant predicts, once the Harper government has let the heat cool a few months after its refusal to allow an Australian mining company to take over Saskatchewan's Potash Corp.
In particular, Grant was cheered that Clement (pictured) told reporters in effect that "his compass is steered by consumer benefit, and that it's very clear to him consumer benefit equates to foreign ownership."
Clement told a communications industry conference earlier in the day that his department will shortly begin consulting on structuring an auction for spectrum in the 700 MHz, eagerly anticipated by many carriers because that spectrum is ideal for the next generation of high speed wireless technology called LTE. That auction, he added, will be held late in 2012.
Earlier this year Clement introduced three choices the government is discussing for telecommunications ownership reform, and said the Harper government would make a choice this fall.
There is speculation that tying the auction rules to foreign ownership Clement is signaling the government really wants to put it off until after the next federal election.
Grant disagrees. "Any political party that is driven by consumers will be driven by votes, and I think that means sooner rather than later."
"I can see this being a Tory election plank," Grant added: "Vote for us, we'll bring you lower wireless prices."
As to whether the government wants small or radical change to the ownership laws, Grant notes Clement was quoted as saying Canadians are more concerned about the ends – more competition and lower prices – than the means.
It makes sense to link the auction to foreign ownership. New wireless entrants such as Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and Public Mobile, who started their business from scratch, could want the money foreign investment brings to get a fair shot at winning more spectrum. Without an adequate supply of spectrum a carrier could strangle. Significantly eased ownership rules will work for them; minor changes won't.
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The rules on telecom foreign ownership become muddied exactly a year ago when the government overturned a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that Wind's parent, Globalive Wireless Management, wasn't Canadian controlled.
The Harper government said its decision wasn't a precedent, but it also admitted a conflict in the existing laws had to be cleared up.
The government also has to create a consistence approach to foreign ownership following the Potash decision. In that case Clement said the takeover wasn't in the interests of the country without defining what that means.
Meanwhile the new entrants will likely be cheered that the next auction won't take place until 2012. Later rather than sooner allows them to raise money.
Similarly, said Grant, incumbent carriers who have been rooting for an early auction – such as Rogers Communications Inc. – will be disappointed.
New entrants may also be cheered that Clement department is looking into the effectiveness of its tower sharing and roaming policy for the rookie carriers. The policy is aimed at forcing incumbents to share their towers with the new entrants to ease their start-up costs. But there are complaints the incumbents have a never-ending list of obstacles.
Clement did announce one thing to please incumbents: The length of wireless broadband licences will be extended to 20 years from 10 for all future spectrum auctions and upcoming licence renewals.
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Five storylines to watch as NBA training camps get underway
By Tim Bontemps
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The Timberwolves' Andrew Wiggins, Karl-Anthony Towns and Jimmy Butler pose at media day on Sept. 22, 2017. (Jim Mone / AP)
There are still three weeks until the NBA games count in the standings, but that doesn't mean the preseason (mercifully shortened by the league) will be meaningless. Here are five things to watch out for as the NBA season gets underway:
1. The health of Thomas, Griffin and Embiid
Several injured stars — including Isaiah Thomas, Blake Griffin and Joel Embiid — have uncertain return dates. While the Cleveland Cavaliers don't need Thomas to finish at or near the top of the Eastern Conference, Griffin's and Embiid's returns could be the difference between the Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers making the playoffs or not.
2. Stars adjusting to new homes
The NBA saw as much movement from star players this summer as ever. That trend continued right up through the weekend, when Carmelo Anthony was finally traded away by the New York Knicks, who sent him to Oklahoma City to team up with Russell Westbrook and the other star the Thunder acquired this summer, Paul George.
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With Boston acquiring Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, Chris Paul joining James Harden in Houston, the Minnesota Timberwolves getting Jimmy Butler and Paul Millsap joining the up-and-coming Denver Nuggets, the next few weeks present the first opportunities to see how they all have adapted to their new homes. The same can be said for the places those players left, with teams such as the Clippers, Knicks, Pacers and Jazz trying to get used to life without their former stars.
3. Draft lottery reform
The NBA's board of governors will meet this week, and one of the top items on the agenda is the potential passage of draft lottery reform. The measure is expected to pass; the league office, specifically NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, is fully behind it. Still, that wasn't enough to keep a different lottery reform measure from earning enough votes to pass three years ago.
This time feels different, though, and the fairly moderate structural changes (essentially flattening out the odds among the top few spots and changing the drawing from three teams to four to diminish the need to lose an extreme amount of games) should prevent the kind of late rally against the measure that happened the last time around.
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5. Coaching hot seats
Last year, remarkably, no NBA team fired its head coach, something that hadn't happened in decades. That means there are plenty of candidates for the hot seat with a new season about to begin. Fred Hoiberg in Chicago and Alvin Gentry in New Orleans are already feeling the heat, but there could be plenty more depending on the opening few weeks.
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David Gilliland Racing (DGR) and CROSLEY Sports Group announced Todd Gilliland will drive the No. 54 Frontline Enterprises Toyota in select races in the NASCAR K&N Pro East Series (K&N) as well as Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) Series during the 2018 season.
Gilliland amassed 18 wins, 25 Top 5's, 45 Top 10's and 15 Pole's in three seasons racing in the K&N East/West Series' combined. He also won the 2016 and 2017 NASCAR K&N West Series Championships and finished second in the 2017 K&N East Series. As no stranger to the K&N East Series, Gilliland will make his first start of the 2018 season at New Smyrna (Fla.) Speedway in February.
Since Gilliland won't be eligible to run the larger tracks in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series until he turns 18-years old in May, he will use the first few months of 2018 to race in the other series'. A product of the NASCAR Next program, Gilliland wants to gain experience for when he sits in the No. 4 KBM Toyota Tundra full time.
Only days after his 15th birthday, Gilliland became the youngest driver to compete in the ARCA Racing Series back in May of 2015, at Toledo (Ohio) Speedway. A race he then won, becoming the youngest winner in ARCA Racing Series history. Gilliland will try his hand in the ARCA Series cars again for a few races beginning at Charlotte (N.C) Motor Speedway in May.
"By putting Todd in DGR-CROSLEY equipment for the ARCA and K&N races, we hope the added experience will accelerate the learning curve for him in the truck series," team owner, David Gilliland said.
For the younger Gilliland to continue running out of the DGR-CROSLEY Racing stable is no surprise. The Gilliland family racing career dates back three generations as Todd's grandfather Butch won the 1997 NASCAR Winston West Series Championship (now NASCAR K&N West Series) and his father, David competed full time in NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series.
It will be a big week in Daytona Beach, Florida, for DGR-CROSLEY as they have cars competing in the K&N East Series at New Smyrna Speedway, ARCA Racing Series at Daytona International Speedway and the owner, David Gilliland running the Camping World Truck Series race and Daytona 500.
More announcements to come from DGR on the exact races and crew chiefs.


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