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Kofax Launches Altosoft Insight 5.0
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April 1 2014 12:00 AM
Kofax® Limited (NASDAQ: KFX) (LSE: KFX), today announced that Altosoft, a Kofax company and developer of business intelligence and analytics software, introduced Altosoft Insight™ 5.0. Insight 5.0 delivers significant new capabilities, including a distributed in-memory architecture, continuous simulation and governed data discovery. It gives organizations the ability to rapidly assemble, analyze and visualize immense amounts of complex data to improve decision making, operational effectiveness and profitability. The release was formally introduced at the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit, being held in Las Vegas this week, where Altosoft is an exhibitor, and delivers three key technological innovations:
MapAggregate™: MapAggregate is a major enhancement to Insight developed to meet the challenges of rapidly expanding data volumes and overcome the inefficiencies and architectural limitations of first generation in-memory business intelligence (BI) and analytics software products. First-generation in-memory BI and analytics software products are limited to using the memory found on a single server and its CPU resources. This problem is compounded by the fact that they also require as much as an additional 10% of overhead for each user, causing even modest data volumes to quickly overwhelm most servers.
MapAggregate provides organizations with the next generation of in-memory BI and analytics and unlimited scalability by enabling the distribution of data across multiple servers to exploit their available memory and CPU resources. Hence, MapAggregate achieves the performance benefits of in-memory technology without the limitations imposed by a first generation, single server in-memory approach.
"The growth of investment in business intelligence technologies has greatly increased market expectations for BI product benefits," said noted business intelligence analyst Claudia Imhoff, President of Intelligent Solutions. "Insight 5.0 meets this challenge by extending its process intelligence capabilities with simulation-based prediction, as well as introducing MapAggregate, a new approach to in-memory BI. MapAggregate improves the scalability of in-memory solutions and reduces underlying hardware costs."
Continuous Simulation: Continuous simulation is a powerful new predictive analytics capability that provides improved operational forecasting for business processes being monitored by the Insight 5.0. These forecasts are continually updated and refined based on actual operational data being collected, resulting in more accurate forecasts and predictability.
Using a dynamic process model that continually adjusts forecasts based on the latest conditions, continuous simulation provides a more precise, real-time analysis of an organization's operating environment. In contrast, more traditional statistical techniques, while adequate for steady-state trends, cannot detect and predict the impact of sudden or evolving changes to historical patterns. Predictive approaches based on static process models often result in poor results, due to issues with the model's rigidity and quality, as well as incorrect assumptions related to the conditions being simulated.
"As business intelligence becomes an increasingly critical differentiator for companies of all sizes, they need solutions that can scale both in terms of data volumes and the practical power of the analysis they can deliver," said Scott Opitz, Altosoft's general manager. "Insight 5.0 redefines the standard for scalability and performance, while delivering true predictive insights into the performance of a company's business processes."
Governed Data Discovery: As organizations expand their use of BI and analytics across the enterprise, governed data discovery becomes increasingly important. Insight 5.0 addresses this challenge with two new capabilities. First, the software can be centrally installed, updated and administered on one or more servers while making client applications, including development, configuration, dashboard, management and other tools, accessible to business users via browser based interfaces that do not require the installation of software or plugins such as Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash/Flex on their computers. Second and as a result, IT is able to centrally administer the software in order to ensure proper governance by maintaining control over user and data access rights as well as the approved definitions of the data and business logic underlying information delivered to users.
About Altosoft
Altosoft, a Kofax company, is a leader in developing process aware business intelligence and analytics software products and solutions. Altosoft Insight helps organizations improve their understanding of complex business processes in order to improve decision making, operational effectiveness and profitability. For more information, visit altosoft.com.
About Kofax
Kofax is a leading provider of smart process applications for the business critical First Mile of customer interactions. These begin with an organization's systems of engagement, which generate real time, information intensive communications from customers, and provide an essential connection to their systems of record, which are typically large scale, rigid enterprise applications and repositories not easily adapted to more contemporary technology. Success in the First Mile can dramatically improve an organization's customer experience and greatly reduce operating costs, thus driving increased competitiveness, growth and profitability. Kofax software and solutions provide a rapid return on investment to more than 20,000 customers in financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these through its own sales and service organization, and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 75 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit kofax.com.
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Q: Programatic Image Scanning and Naming I have a typical yearbook with photos and a name beneath each photo.  Is there a programmatic way to scan all of the photos and save them with the name beneath the photo?

A: Yes - but unless your 'typical' school has > 1000 students in the year it's going to be easier to type the names in manually.
Finding the name box in the scan, isolating the text, ocr'ign it and then hooking up all the software to crop and save the photos manually is going to take you a lot longer than the 2-3 seconds it takes to type a name.
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I don't know of any scanning software that does this - there might be something for newspapers.
If the layout of the year books is consistent (at least across the same book) you could scan a page and have either batch mode in your favourite image app, or some command line tool split it out into separate images based on the pixel coordinates. You could then extract just the name box into a separate image and do ocr on that. If they are relatively modern and were layed out in a DTP package with clean fonts this shoudl work well - older books with typewriter captions and paste markup might be harder
Another alternative - depending on privacy issues - would be to crowd surf the problem.
Since presumably you aren't just doing this for your own amusement and want people from the school to be interested.
 - Create a facebook/myspace/flickr (or whatever the cool kids are using this hour) for your school.
 - Post each picture (or class shot) and ask people to enter the name - either from recognising the person or by reading the caption.
 - Another approach is to post the pictures on your site as PDFs and have google index it and do the OCR for you.

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"I heard that minor bumps at a later age could have dramatic consequences. So I'm taking action now."
For me, it started with a minor fall from my bike. Nothing serious, but enough to be taken to hospital for a fractured wrist. A year later, I fractured my ankle after missing a step on a ladder. The radiologist noticed something strange on the x-rays and suggested a bone density test. The results were clear: osteoporosis.
According to the risk factors for osteoporosis, I'm not at risk. I don't smoke, I don't drink heavily, I don't have a family history of osteoporosis and I'm a man.
Osteoporosis is an old woman's disease, isn't it? Apparently not. In fact, it affects approximately one in three women and one in five men over 70.1,2
What I changed
Even though I have osteoporosis and am retired, I'm still young at heart. Even so, I decided to make some changes to prevent future accidents and reduce the likelihood of fractures.
I now go for relaxing bike rides with a couple of friends instead of cycling on my racing bike as this has a lower risk of falling. I also follow the exercises on fragilebones.eu.
I did my own research before talking to my doctor about treatment options. I found the checklist on fragilebones.eu useful to know what to ask. My doctor says that my long term bone health should improve as long as I keep up with the treatments long term.
How it helped
Since my diagnosis, I'm more aware of my limits, but I don't let them stop me from doing something that I really want to do.
How I feel now
How do I feel now? Slightly conflicted, to be honest.
I love that I still see my old friends and have made plenty of new ones. Plus, I enjoy life and everything it offers. However, I'm concerned about falling and I feel that I've become a lot more cautious than I used to be.
Stay active. Stay independent.
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"I might have old bones, but I'm still young at heart!"
Kanis JA. et al. Osteoporos Int. 2000:11:669-74.
https://www.iofbonehealth.ord/what is-osteoporosis Accessed July 2018.

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was a Japanese idol girl group formed by Up-Front Promotion in 2004 and associated with Hello! Project. The group's members consisted of Hello! Project Kids members Saki Shimizu, Momoko Tsugunaga, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Chinami Tokunaga, Maasa Sudo, Yurina Kumai, and Risako Sugaya; Maiha Ishimura left the group in 2005.

Berryz Kobo debuted with their first single in March of the same year. In 2007, Berryz Kobo became the youngest act ever to give a solo concert at Saitama Super Arena. In 2008, the group received the Best Asian Newcomer Award at the Asia Song Festival and a Cable Music Award at the 41st Japan Cable Awards ceremony. As of December 2014, the group had released 36 singles, nine studio albums, one EP and one compilation album. Berryz Kobo's combined CD and DVD sales exceeded one million copies in Japan alone.

History

2002–2003: Hello! Project Kids
All of the group's members were initially selected during the audition for Hello! Project Kids in 2002 and undertook professional training in Hello! Project.

In 2002, Maasa Sudo and Risako Sugaya appeared in the Minimoni movie Okashi na Daibōken! as members of the group 4Kids.

In 2003, some Hello! Project Kids' members were placed in bands led by Morning Musume members. Miyabi Natsuyaki was selected to be in Aa!, while Saki Shimizu and Momoko Tsugunaga were in the group ZYX. Both units were short-lived, and their activities stalled with the creation of Berryz Kobo.

2004: Formation and debut
The formation of Berryz Kobo was announced at a Hello! Project club event on 14 January 2004. The band was composed of eight members of Hello! Project Kids, who were then known as the "starting line-up". Initially it was planned to rotate all 15 members of Hello! Project Kids through the group, which would have given Berryz Kobo's members more time for school. Later, however, the idea was dismissed, and the remaining seven Hello! Project Kids members formed the group Cute in 2005.

On 3 March 2004, the new band debuted with the single "Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai", which ranked 18th on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. Two more singles followed in April and May, and on 7 July the group released its first album, titled 1st Chō Berryz.

In addition to their activity as Berryz Kobo, the girls also performed as backup dancers in music videos of the newly created Hello! Project duo W.

2005: First top 10 hit and Ishimura's graduation
The single "Special Generation" was released on 30 March 2005, and ranked seventh on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. It was Berryz Kobo's first single to rank in the top 10, and their first to sell more than 20,000 copies. At that time, the group's average age was less than 12 years old.

On 11 September 2005, it was announced that Maiha Ishimura would graduate from the group and Hello! Project to focus on her studies. Ishimura's graduation took place on 2 October 2005, on the last night of the Berryz Kobo autumn 2005 concert tour.

2006: Jiriri Kiteru
The 10th single, "Jiriri Kiteru," was released on the 29th of March. It was ranked in sixth place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, setting a new high for the group.

2007: Youngest concert at Saitama Super Arena
In February 2007, Berryz Kobo made news headlines after it was announced that the group would be holding a concert at Saitama Super Arena on 1 April. The tickets for the two performances (a total of 20,000 seats) sold out almost two months before the premiere, and the group became the youngest act ever to perform a solo concert at the arena. At the time its members' average age was 13.8, with the previous record of 16.3 set by Morning Musume four years earlier.

On 27 June, Berryz released their 14th single "Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba." It ranked fourth on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, becoming their highest-selling single.

2008: Awards and NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
On the 12th of March 2008 the group released "Dschinghis Khan," their first cover song and, as of 2012, their highest- selling single.

In October, Berryz Kobo participated at the 2008 Asia Song Festival in South Korea, representing Japan alongside W-inds and Anna Tsuchiya. Berryz won the festival's Best Asian Newcomer Award alongside the SM Entertainment group Shinee.

On 12 December, they performed at Sharam Q's 20th anniversary concert at the Nippon Budokan. The group took part in the 41st  show at Nakano Sun Plaza on 17 December, performing "Dschinghis Khan," for which they received a , awarded to the most requested song on the Cansystem cable radio network. The year ended with the group's debut at the 58th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an annual music show broadcast on 31 December. They performed a number together with Morning Musume and Cute.

2009: Influenza and collaboration with Inazuma Eleven
In March, Berryz Kobo First Fan Club Tour in Hawaii '09 was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, where the band performed exclusively for the members of the Japanese fan club. It was the group's first overseas fan club tour.

The 22 March concert in Nagoya was cancelled just a few days before the date, because two members, Miyabi Natsuyaki and Risako Sugaya, were suffering from influenza.

On 25 April the girls celebrated the group's 100th solo concert in Utsunomiya, Tochigi during their spring concert tour Sono Subete no Ai ni.

On 3 June, the group released their 20th single and their first double A-side single, "Seishun Bus Guide/Rival." "Seishun Bus Guide" was a closing theme for the anime series Inazuma Eleven. On 21 June, the group held a mini-concert in South Korea, which became their first commercial solo concert outside Japan.

In autumn 2009, the group was again affected by influenza. On Tuesday, 13 October, fans were notified that Momoko Tsugunaga was diagnosed with influenza and would be absent from the concert scheduled for Saturday. The next day, Miyabi Natsuyaki was reported to be diagnosed as well after having felt sick the previous evening, and it was announced that the Sunday concert had to be cancelled due to Maasa Sudo and Risako Sugaya also having influenza. The next day, Hello! Project reported that Saki Shimizu caught influenza, affecting five of the seven members.
In the beginning of November, the influenza got to Chinami Tokunaga, followed by Yurina Kumai a couple of days later; causing them to miss the 7 and 8 November concerts.

2010: More Inazuma Eleven endings
In spring, the group performed in Bangkok, Thailand, for the first time.

On 3 March, the group released their third double A-side single, "Otakebi Boy Wao!/Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda!" The single debuted on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart at number three, making it their highest-ranking single to date. It also stayed in the top 10 for a second week, ranking ninth.

In July they released a new single, "Maji Bomber!!," which was used as an ending theme for both the anime Inazuma Eleven and the game the anime was based upon. Their next single and their final Inazuma Eleven ending theme, "Shining Power," was released on 10 November.

2011: Oricon Daily number 1 and first concert in America
On 3 March, the anniversary of the group's debut, the group began its seventh-anniversary tour.

Berryz Kobo's 25th single "Heroine ni Narō ka!" ("Let's be Heroines") reached number one on the Oricon Daily Singles Chart for 6 March. The concert that was scheduled for 12 March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, was abruptly canceled due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami which hit the day before. All of the group's members were safe, but the tour had to be stopped. The concerts were either canceled or postponed until the end of March. At the end of March, Berryz Kobo released their seventh album, 7 Berryz Times.

In April, the group performed at Sakura-Con 2011, an anime convention in Seattle, Washington, United States. This was the first performance by Berryz Kobo in the United States. The group participated in events such as autograph sessions, question and answer sessions, and a concert. 3,500 people were reported to have attended the concert.

On 8 June, the group released their 26th single, "Ai no Dangan".

On 10 August, the group released their 27th single, titled "Aa, Yo ga Akeru".

2012
In 2012, Berryz Kobo's leader Saki Shimizu announced on her official blog that on 21 March, the new Berryz Kobo single "Be Genki! (Naseba Naru)" would be released.

The group's eighth album Ai no Album 8 was released on 22 February.

On 8–10 June, the group appeared at AnimeNEXT in Somerset, New Jersey, their second live performance in USA. On 20 June, the group released its second collaboration CD single with fellow Hello! Project Kids group Cute, named "Chō Happy Song" ("Super Happy Song.") The title tune is an overlay of two previously published songs, Berryz Kobo's "Because Happiness" and Cute's "Shiawase no Tochū" ("On the Road to Happiness") from their 2012 albums, which were composed and produced by Tsunku intentionally to form a new song when played simultaneously. The trick was originally scheduled to be announced at a summer Hello! Project concert, but was uncovered by fans in mid-April. The song became widely discussed on the Internet, and the set of three tracks, "Because Happiness", "Shiawase no Tochū", and "Chō Happy Song", was hastily released as a digital download single on 28 April.

On 25 July, the group released their 29th single, "Cha Cha Sing," a cover song of the popular Thai song "Row Mah Sing" by artist Thongchai McIntyre. The single was the group's first to include a solo song, "Momochi! Yurushite-nyan Taisō," which was performed by member Momoko Tsugunaga.

2013
It was announced on 19 May in Tokyo's Hibiya Park that Berryz Kobo would be holding a concert at the Nippon Budokan arena on 29 November 2013.

On 2 October, the group released their 33rd single, "Motto Zutto Issho ni Itakatta," which became their highest selling single (with a reported total of 40,845 copies,) beating Dschinghis Khan's 37,096 copies. On 11 November, Berryz Kobo held their special concert at the Nippon Budokan.

2014: Tenth anniversary and indefinite suspension
It was announced on 2 August 2014, at the summer Hello! Project concerts that Berryz Kobo would be going on an "indefinite suspension starting Spring 2015". The girls decided together that they would like to explore other opportunities. The decision to call this an "indefinite suspension" was made since the girls felt calling this move a "disbandment" would cause Berryz Kobo to disappear or fade away. The group continued its activities until the spring of 2015, when their final appearances and performances would be announced and take place. Tsunku added he would "like to see them chase new dreams" and asked for continued support throughout their remaining time as an active group.

On 24 February 2015, Shimizu and Tokunaga announced on their blogs they would remain with the company as advisors, where they would act as the "go-between" for the staff and members. The next day Sugaya announced she would take time off to focus on her personal life. The following day Kumai stated on her blog that she would finish her university degree and would pursue a modeling career.

Performances outside Japan
Berryz Kobo have performed and made appearances outside Japan numerous times.

In 2009 Mnet and Up-Front Works arranged a Berryz Kobo mini-concert in South Korea on 21 June at Yonsei University Auditorium, titled Berryz Kobo Mini Live in Korea. This was the group's first concert outside Japan.

In 2010 Berryz Kobo was chosen over Morning Musume and Cute to perform in Thailand. Their concert was held on 27 March at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium, formally known as Rajamangala National Stadium. This was the group's second performance outside Japan.

On the last day of the group's Autumn 2010 concert tour, captain Saki Shimizu announced that they would be performing at the anime convention Sakura-Con in Seattle, the United States on 22–24 April 2011. Their American concert debut at Sakura-Con 2011 had an audience of 3,500. Fans traveled from all over the world, including many parts of the US, Canada, France, Mexico, and Japan to support the group as they celebrated their seventh year together. During the weekend the members appeared at the event's opening and closing ceremonies, participated in a live audience Q&A, held two 60-minute sessions where they signed autographs, and performed an hour-long concert consisting of 14 songs. This was the group's third performance outside Japan, and first outside Asia. Berryz Kobo was the third Hello! Project major act to perform outside Asia following Morning Musume (in Los Angeles, 2009 and Paris, 2010), and Erina Mano (in Los Angeles, 2010).

On 8–10 June 2012, the group performed at AnimeNEXT, an anime convention in Somerset, New Jersey, in the United States.

Members
 Saki Shimizu - captain
 Momoko Tsugunaga
 Chinami Tokunaga
 Maasa Sudo
 Miyabi Natsuyaki - sub-captain
 Yurina Kumai
 Risako Sugaya

Former members
 Maiha Ishimura (2004–2005)

Timeline

Red (vertical) = Singles
Green (vertical) = Studio albums

Discography

 Studio albums
 1st Chō Berryz (2004)
 Dai 2 Seichōki (2005)
 3 Natsu Natsu Mini Berryz (2006)
 4th Ai no Nanchara Shisū (2007)
 5 (Five) (2008)
 6th Otakebi Album (2010)
 7 Berryz Times (2011)
 Ai no Album 8 (2012)
 Berryz Mansion 9kai (2013)

 Mini-albums
 Special! Best Mini ~2.5 Maime no Kare~ (2005)

 Compilation albums
 Berryz Kobo Special Best Vol. 1 (2009)
 Berryz Kobo Special Best Vol. 2 (2014)
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Bibliography

Concert tours

Awards

Asia Song Festival

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Japan Cable Awards
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* awarded to the most requested song of the year on the cable radio

References

External links

 Berryz Kobo's leader Saki Shimizu's official Ameblo blog
 Berryz Kobo's official Hello! Project profile
 Berryz Kobo official discography
 Berryz Kobo Kiritsu! Rei! Chakuseki! website
 List of reviews: Berryz Kobo - Hotexpress

2004 establishments in Japan
Child musical groups
Hello! Project groups
Japanese electropop groups
Japanese girl groups
Japanese idol groups
Japanese pop music groups
Musical groups established in 2004
Musical groups from Tokyo

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A Geelong drug dealer who..
A Geelong drug dealer who tasered himself to see if his weapon was still working has avoided jail.
The taser, along with a machete, gun, and knuckledusters, was found at a home in Whittington in May, along with more than $2,000 worth of drugs.
The Geelong Advertiser reports the 26-year-old pleaded guilty to various drugs and weapons charges, and has been placed on a 12-month community corrections order.


The ER-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway serves as an important cellular safeguard by directing incorrectly folded and unassembled proteins from the ER to the proteasome. Still, however, little is known about the components mediating ERAD of membrane proteins. Here we show that the evolutionary conserved rhomboid family protein RHBDL4 is a ubiquitin-dependent ER-resident intramembrane protease that is upregulated upon ER stress. RHBDL4 cleaves single-spanning and polytopic membrane proteins with unstable transmembrane helices, leading to their degradation by the canonical ERAD machinery. RHBDL4 specifically binds the AAA+-ATPase p97, suggesting that proteolytic processing and dislocation into the cytosol are functionally linked. The phylogenetic relationship between rhomboids and the ERAD factor derlin suggests that substrates for intramembrane proteolysis and protein dislocation are recruited by a shared mechanism.


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Q: [NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Bad file descriptor - Crashes app on startup I'm using GTMLogger and have the following piece of code that seems to be crashing since moving to iOS5.1 . The weird thing i can't seem to reproduce it, but i know its happening to many users, so I'm not sure how to track it.
[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Bad file descriptor
I could just try/catch it but its not a solution as much as a workaround.
This is the suspicious part:
NSFileHandle *file = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForUpdatingAtPath:logFilePath];
if (file)
{
    unsigned long long maxFileOffset = [file seekToEndOfFile];
    if (maxFileOffset > kDebugFileMaxSize)
    {
        // read file, trunicate, save, reopen
        [file seekToFileOffset:maxFileOffset - kDebugFileMaxSize];
        NSMutableData *data = [NSMutableData dataWithData:[file readDataToEndOfFile]];
        [file seekToFileOffset:0];
        [file writeData:data];
        [file truncateFileAtOffset:kDebugFileMaxSize];
        [file seekToEndOfFile];
    }
}
else
{
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:logFilePath contents:nil attributes:nil];
    file = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForUpdatingAtPath:logFilePath];
}

Anyone ever got something like that ?

A: I eventually just got rid of GTMLogger and moved to some other logger, thanks for anyone who might've read this :)


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Cost-Utility and Budget Impact Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus Treatment With Sofosbuvir-based Regimens in Thailand
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Hepatitis C caused liver diseases is one of major disease burden in low- and middle-income countries. Many economic evaluation studies worldwide showed the evidence that using medicines for hepatitis C treatment provides enough benefit to patients when justify its cost. However, in 2011, there was no any studies conducted to be considered in the context of Thailand. In the same time, there was no any medicines for hepatitis C treatment included in the pharmaceutical reimbursement list of Thailand as well. As a consequence, the first economic evaluation study on hepatitis C treatment was established resulting in the evidence of using peg-interferon alfa 2a or 2b with ribavirin presents advantage outweigh their high cost for patients genotype 2 and 3. In 2013, the Sub-committee for Development of the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) decided to select these medicines into the formulary. After that, the other questions had been raised to the Sub-committee for Development of the NLEM whether equity or not that patients genotype 2 and 3 be the only beneficiaries? and is it appropriate to exclude HIV-HCV co-infection patients to have drugs reimbursed because their qualification are not meet the criteria of the NLEM? According to the incidence of hepatitis C in Thailand, the most 3 common genotypes are genotype 3 (30-40%), genotype 1 (20-30%) and genotype 6 (10-20%), two studies were performed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of using peg-interferon alfa 2a or 2b with ribavirin among patients who are genotype 1 and 6 and who are HIV-HCV co-infection. At the end, in 2015, the Sub-committee for Development of the NLEM adopted the regimens of peg-interferon alfa 2a or 2b with ribavirin for hepatitis C patients genotype 1, 2, 3 and 6 whether or not they are HIV-HCV co-infection to include in the NLEM of Thailand.
Recently, however, there are the newly developed and highly expensive medicines for the treatment of hepatitis C patients named direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs), This group of medicines has higher efficacy and fewer side effects when compare with the standard treatment (peg-interferon alfa 2a or 2b with ribavirin). As a result, new economic evaluation study has been developed to compare the regimens among the standard treatment, DAA plus standard treatment, and only dual DAA combination.


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Boxing Great Manny Pacquiao Retires, Sets His Sights On Philippine Presidency
Published September 29, 2021 at 12:13 AM AKDT
In this photo provided by the Manny Pacquiao MediaComms, Senator Manny Pacquiao raises his hands during a national convention of his PDP-Laban party in Quezon city, Philippines on Sunday Sept. 19, 2021. Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections.
MANILA, Philippines — Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is officially hanging up his gloves.
The eight-division world champion and Philippines senator on Wednesday announced his retirement from the ring,
"I would like to thank the whole world, especially the Filipino people, for supporting Manny Pacquiao. Goodbye boxing," the 42-year old said in a 14-minute video posted on his Facebook page. "It is difficult for me to accept that my time as a boxer is over. Today I am announcing my retirement."
Pacquiao finished his 26-year, 72-fight career with 62 wins, eight losses and two draws. Of those 62 wins, 39 were by knockout and 23 by decision. He won 12 world titles and is the only fighter in history to win titles in eight different weight classes.
His retirement from boxing followed a disheartening defeat to Yordenis Ugas in Paradise, Nevada on Aug. 21. The younger Cuban boxer beat Pacquiao by unanimous decision, retaining his WBA welterweight title. It was Pacquiao's first fight in more than two years.
"Thank you for changing my life, when my family was desperate, you gave us hope, you gave me the chance to fight my way out of poverty," Pacquiao said in the video. "Because of you, I was able to inspire people all over the world. Because of you I have been given the courage to change more lives."
Pacquaio had hinted at retirement recently. It also had been expected because he is setting his sights on a bigger political battlefield. Earlier this month, he accepted his political party's nomination and declared that that he will run for Philippines president in the May 2022 elections.
He has accused the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, his former ally, of making corruption worse in the Philippines. He promised to fight poverty and warned corrupt politicians they will soon end up in jail.
Pacquiao's rags-to-riches life story and legendary career brought honor to his Southeast Asian nation, where he is known by his monikers Pacman, People's Champ and National Fist.
He left his impoverished home in the southern Philippines as a teenager and stowed away on a ship bound for Manila. He made his professional boxing debut as a junior flyweight in 1995, at the age of 16, fighting his way out of abject poverty to become one of the world's highest-paid athletes.
Eddie Banaag, a 79-year-old retiree, said Pacquiao was his idol as a boxer and he watched almost all of his fights. But he believes the boxing icon should have retired earlier.
"He should have done that right after his victory over (Keith) Thurman," Banaag said of Pacquiao's win over Thurman on July 20, 2019 in Las Vegas, Pacquiao's second-last fight. "It would have been better if he ended his boxing career with a win rather than a loss."
Still, Pacquiao believes he will always be remembered as a winner. Hundreds of millions of dollars in career earnings and his record in the ring leave no doubt.
"I will never forget what I have done and accomplished in my life," Pacquiao said Wednesday. "I just heard the final bell. The boxing is over. "


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Opinion: 'Luxembourg leaks' revelations, a problem for Juncker
In Luxembourg, tax avoidance is officially seen as good for the state - nothing new there. His past as the country's premier could be a problem for the chief of the European Commission head, says DW's Bernd Riegert.
Everyone knew. For many years, Luxembourg offered companies the opportunity to push their tax burden to close to zero by taking advantage of particularly lackadaisical tax legislation. That's the business model of the tiny duchy that enjoys a good reputation in financial circles, and has done so for decades.
On its website, the international business consultancy Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) officially praises the good cooperation with government offices that are very "innovative" in coming up with extraordinary strategies to avoid taxation. The firm has 2,000 employees in Luxembourg, and they aren't in the country for the duchy's lovely scenery or cultural treasures. Luxembourg is home to dozens of similar consultancies, and hundreds of international companies have followed their call. All of the European politicians who are now pointing a finger at Luxembourg and its former Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker know that.
Bernd Riegert
EU member states compete against one another with their tax shelter schemes and tax laws. Internationally, some are regarded as veritable tax havens. The Netherlands, Ireland, Britain, Malta, Cyprus also offer such services to companies and investors. The new disclosures, dubbed "Luxembourg Leaks", once more shine a light on the practices.
Tax avoidance, or tax organization, according to Luxembourg legislation is legal. In a globalized world, international firms seek the best model, shamelessly taking advantage of the competition beetween different countries. Efforts to clip these models on an international level in the framework of the OECD or the G20 are still in the early stages. Recently, 50 states agreed to exchange tax and bank data, but that's aimed at disclosing tax evasion, a criminal offense, unlike tax avoidance, which is not punishable.
It's morally objectionable because the states that work along those lines lose billions in taxes. The ActionAid development aid organization has long pointed out that international enterprises use the model to avoid taxation in developing countries. The amount saved in taxes exceeds what is paid in state development aid. So actually, the scandal is that these states, not just Luxembourg, condoned and supported the practice for decades.
Last year, the European Commission, led now by Jean-Claude Juncker, started to investigate various tax avoidance models in its member states, including Luxembourg. They could be looking at illegal state assistance. Tax legislation, however, is a national matter that hasn't been harmonized in Europe. A credible currency union in Europe would also require a tax union with standardized tax rates and standardized regulations - all of which is a long way off.
The question remains whether Jean-Claude Juncker is the right man at the head of the inquiry.
He pledged to take a tough stance on the issue against all member states, including his native Luxembourg. As prime minister, he was responsible for the decisions now under investigation. Can he really stay neutral? Can he remain credible? Perhaps he should at least assert his bias and avoid contact with the ongoing investigation. He is still defiant, but he must make an announcement soon if he doesn't want to ruin his reputation as an independent guardian of the European Aaccords - the EU Commission president's job. The Juncker Commission is facing a glaring false start.
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Q: Valgrind "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" Error I am getting many errors with valgrind saying "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialized value(s)".
Below is the one of the blocks. All of them are similar:
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The error itself is on the while() line. vasm_sourceline_info is a doubly linked list structure. The code ~works~ but this error is worrying. Is there something else in code stomping on memory, or is the above function flawed in some way?

A: There's nothing wrong with the code per se, but if one of the lines' next field has not been initialized (presumably the last line's next field), that would explain the message.

A: Compile with optimizations OFF (-O0). Run valgrind with --track-origins=yes to determine the source of the errors. See here for more.


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Keith Urban's Fans React to Kindness
"I Mean, Wow, Who Does This?"
By now, you must've seen the video. The one where Keith Urban graciously hands over his four CMT Music Awards to his fans to keep at their homes for an entire year.
It was the year-end gesture heard around the world. And while you could see the joy in the fans' smiles and hear it in their voices, I wanted to know how they felt once it all sunk in.
Erin Evans, from Yorba Linda, California, got her surprise from Urban over the summer at a California fair. And before he even explained what was happening, she was already on another planet because Urban had greeted her by name.
"I was completely stunned and overwhelmed," Evans told CMT.com. "Managed to fight back the happy tears. I mean, wow, who does this??"
"He was thanking me (thanking ME!) for the CMT awards! I told him we all voted, every day, all of us in (Urban's official fan club) The 'Ville, we wanted to win it for him! WE DID IT," she said. "Keith is such a gracious and appreciative person. He is always thanking others. He thanks his fans after every concert, he always takes time for a smile and a picture and a special moment for a fan. We love him for it! He is the definition of humble and kind. He loves his fans, and we love him right back."
She plans to put the special CMT Music Award on the shelves in her home where she keeps family pictures, kids' artwork and keepsakes. She cleared off a shelf to put the award, plus some memorabilia she has collected over the years, including a setlist from an Urban show, a license plate and confetti she has collected from concerts.
"I didn't want it to look like a shrine. My husband, John, said, 'Oh no, make it a total shrine.' I love seeing so many great memories right next to Keith's award every day," she said. "Our family has fun taking selfies with the award!"
Doug Torkelson, from Lawton, Oklahoma, echoed Evans' feelings when Urban surprised him with the good news at a show in Thackerville, a couple of hours away from home.
"I've not heard of anyone doing that before. So to have him tell me that he was going to send me one of HIS CMT awards was pretty awesome," Torkelson said, who added that he was speechless when it happened and still doesn't think it has sunk in yet.
"He didn't have to send this CMT award to me, or to the others that received one. We are all very grateful that he chose to do so. But this shows that he really and truly loves his fans," he said. "With all the pictures and videos he shares to social media, you can tell he genuinely cares for all his fans, and wants to keep us updated on what he's working on or what he's doing."
Torkelson is keeping the award on a shelf in his bedroom where he has steins from Germany and a picture of his best friends who moved to the country in 2016.
The four fan-voted awards Urban won at this year's CMT Music Awards were for video of the year for "Blue Ain't Your Color," male video of the year for "Blue Ain't Your Color," collaborative video of the year feat. Carrie Underwood for "The Fighter," and social superstar of the year.
When he accepted the awards at CMT's live show at Nashville's Music City Center, he'd dedicated it to every fan who has ever loved him and his music.
"This award is for everybody watching that voted, for everybody in the room tonight, for everybody outside who couldn't get in, for everybody who comes to see us play in concert," he'd said. "You guys allow me to (play music), and when you support this music and connect with it the way you do, that's all I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to make a connection."
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Q: How can I move a rectangle by CZML in Cesium? I would like to ask that I defined a rectangle in czml, but we know that the rectangle is determined by four dimensions[Cesium.Rectangle(west, south, east, north)]. How should I fill in the "position" if I want to move the rectangle? I tried "cartographicDegrees" and "wsenDegrees", but I couldn't move according to time.
{
        "id": "rectangle",
        "rectangle": {
            "coordinates": {
                "wsenDegrees": [118.99, 24.99, 119.01, 25.01] //how can I change this position?
            },
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Colorado lagging behind its recycling,…
'A lot of work to do': Colorado recycling, composting efforts fall short of goals
In this Tribune file photo, area residents drop off recyclable materials at the Northern Colorado Disposal Recycling Facility, at the corner of 59th Avenue and O Street, Saturday morning Feb., 9, 2019. The center closed permanently Feb. 27. (mbrian/mbrian@greeleytribune.com)
By Jadyn Watson-Fisher | jwatson-fisher@greeleytribune.com | Greeley Tribune
The second annual Colorado Recycles Week began Monday with a webinar about recycling and composting initiatives across the state, and Front Range waste production and lack of accessibility is limiting progress.
According to a report from Eco-Cycle, a nonprofit recycling company based in Boulder, the amount of waste produced and sent to the landfill went up in 2019. Meanwhile, the amount of recycled or composted materials decreased statewide. It dropped from 17.2% in 2018 to 15.9% in 2019.
This is well below 35%, which is the national average for diverted municipal waste. It is also far below the state goal of having 28% of waste diverted by 2021.
Front Range communities produced most of the state's waste, according to Eco-Cycle. In 2019, it generated nearly 90% of the state's waste, a 5% jump from the year before. The population only grew about 1%.
Of the waste created, only 16.2% was recycled or composted.
"We clearly have a lot of work to do," said Suzanne 'Zan' Jones, Eco-Cycle executive director.
Twenty-four Colorado cities, five from Weld County, with populations of 10,000 residents or more do not provide universal recycling services with curbside trash pick up. Data indicates bundling the services is one of the most effective ways to get people to participate in recycling.
Greeley, Firestone, Windsor, Erie (split between Weld and Boulder counties) and Johnstown (split between Weld and Larimer counties) require residents to actively opt-in to a recycling program. Residents in Greeley must choose an external servicer, such as Waste Management or Bunting Disposal, for trash and recycling.
Frederick, Evans and Longmont (split between Weld and Boulder counties), however, provide universal curbside recycling.
Despite the less-than-stellar numbers, recycling efforts prevented 1.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere. This is the equivalent of removing 400,000 passenger vehicles from the roads for one year.
Boulder, Fort Collins and Loveland received recognition for expanding recycling and composting efforts.
Each city provides automatic curbside services; encourages or requires Homeowners Associations and multifamily complexes to provide services; promotes business and industrial recycling; and offers drop-off locations.
Loveland boasts a 60% residential participation rate, while Boulder leads the state in residential and business recycling with 51% participation. Fort Collins tops the industrial recycling rate at more than 65%.
Arvada, after pushback in the early 2010s, approved this year a universal curbside program. It will begin in July 2021.
"Sometimes it feels like there's nothing we can do as individuals to address the problem, but I do think recycling and composting are two critical ways that each of us can step up for our planet," said Marlon Reis, Colorado first gentleman and environmental advocate.
The panel said municipalities desiring to expand ecological waste options can start with three major services. They can provide recycling for multifamily units, offer universal curbside pickup for single family and expand business recycling services. These are easy and effective ways to increase recycling.
Arvada Mayor pro tempore Dot Miller recommended city leaders look to partner with recycling businesses and nonprofits if they have concerns about funding sanitation service expansions.
Colorado also recently introduced the Front Range Waste Diversion fund. It helps municipalities, schools, businesses and haulers as they increase recycling and composting accessibility. The fund is expected to provide roughly $100 million in grants over the next decade.
In the first grant cycle this fall, the diversion fund awarded more than $2 million to promote recycling and composting programs.
"The earth truly is our one and only home, so caring about our planet is a great deal more than just a best practice to make part of our routine or good public policy for politicians to write and enact," Reis said. "Caring for our planet is necessary for life itself."
Jadyn Watson-Fisher | Sports reporter
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Greeley-Evans Alternative Program and Next District 6 students celebrate winter graduation
Affidavit: Man that eluded police, resisted arrest in January has criminal history dating back 20 years
Weld County oil spills for Jan. 31


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Russian Blogosphere Survey for April 12, 2015
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By Michael Jasinski Last updated Feb 19, 2018
By J.Hawk
This is a daily Fort Russ feature. To view earlier editions, please click on the "Daily Brief" tab above the title.
Donetsk People's Republic flag raised over Antarctic
The flag was placed there by a renowned Soviet polar explorer Vladimir Koshelyov.
Life in Soviet-era Baltic republics
Photographs from '50s, '60s, and the '70s. It wasn't a perfect world by any means, but looking at that same world today (and I grew up not that far from there), in many ways it was far less imperfect than what we see there today.
Yet more T-14 photos
Several more at the link. I guess we won't get a look at the turret until the things appear on the Red Square on May 9!
Teacher's note to parents: Dear Andrey Igoryevich, your 3rd-grader son was disruptive today during the 10th grade military preparedness class during his late stay at school. He continuously interrupted the teacher, arguing that "this is not how one trains soldiers," and criticizing the teacher for allegedly showing the incorrect procedure for disassembling and assembling the Kalashnikov rifle. Andrey Igoryevich, please have a talk with your son concerning proper behavior in class, and also review the alphabet with him–he continues to make mistakes.
UAF preparing a provocation using Russian Army uniforms
DPR Ministry of Defense warned that, according to intelligence data, the UAF are preparing to carry out a provocation using Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian uniforms. A truckload of troops dressed in this way was seen leaving Dnepropetrovsk and heading east.
A Russian Navy ship evacuates over 300 foreign citizens from Yemen
Remarkably, the total includes 18 US and 5 British citizens.
How Timofey Khryukin sank an aircraft carrier
One of the lesser facts of World War 2 is that USSR fought against each of the three Axis powers before the war "officially" started. Not only did it fight all three of them, it was the only major Allied power of WW2 to have fought ANY of them. The article (more illustrations at the link) details the operations of Russian aircraft and aircrews operating (with Chinese markings) as part of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force against the Japanese, activities which may well have served as the inspiration for FDR's "Flying Tigers." The ship in question was an auxiliary aircraft carrier Yamato-Maru, a converted ocean liner that was used as a floating airfield by the Japanese Army Air Force–until it was sank by Khryukin's Tupolev SB-2 twin-engined bomber on July 28, 1938. The ship's wreckage can still be seen on the shores of Yangtze river.
Another Sukhoi Superjet makes its maiden flight
It's the sixth brand-new Superjet already this year to take to the skies. The plane will be delivered to Aeroflot.
WNA: Russia is the world's leader in developing new nuclear technologies
The World Nuclear Association also noted that Rosatom has a portfolio of outstanding orders totalling $100 billion, thanks to the affordability, reliability, safety, and power of the Russian fission reactors. In 2014 alone Rosatom's portfolio increased from 20 to 28 reactor orders, and today Russia is building more reactors in foreign countries than any other country.
Russian seaport cargo volume increased by 8.9% during January-March 2015
The increase is in part due to the fact that Russian shipping companies are no longer using ports located in Ukraine or in Baltic states, favoring seaports located on Russia's territory instead.
Video report on Crimea's shipyards
Russian defenders of human rights ask Russia to recognize DPR/LPR documents
Theoretically most inhabitants of DPR and LPR have Ukrainian identity papers. However, these are gradually reaching their expiration dates, and since Ukraine's institutions have stopped functioning on the Donbass, DPR/LPR are issuing their own documents as replacements. However, Russia is not recognizing their validity, which is complicating trade between the two political entities, and is threatening to make Novorossia's humanitarian situation worse. However, recognizing LPR/DPR documents as valid would be tantamount to recognizing the two republics' independence.
Russian VVS to accept Pantsyr-S2 into service
The Pantsyr-S2 is a short-range air defense system capable of engaging even small and stealthy targets, including cruise missiles, drones, and precision-guided air-to-ground munitions. Its uses include airfield defense, as well as close protection of S-300 and S-400 regiments against anti-radar missiles.
A new brand
The VS-121 sniper rifle, which is undergoing the final stages of its development at the Izhevsk Factory, will replace the famous Dragunov SVD sniper rifle in the Russian Armed Forces.
Chronicles of an economy in a dive
"I announced what?"
Akhmetov's Metinvest declares bankruptcy. Ukraine's debts will not be forgiven by foreign creditors. Ukraine's utility rates will continue to climb. Businesses are forecasting growth of unemployment in Ukraine. Fruits and vegetables may soon become unaffordable for many Ukrainians. But there is money to change all the city and street signs which recall Soviet-era heroes and officials! And you know who else has money? Kolomoysky, who apparently is planning to buy the recently bankrupted Delta-Bank.
St. Petersburg as a toy
A photo gallery of St. Petersburg shot by a Russian photographer Dmitriy Pesochinskiy from the altitude of 300m. Over 30 photographs which create an illusion one is looking at a scale model of the city.
The hedgehogs of Elena Eremina
A sizable photo gallery. I'm actually a cat person, but I could switch!
The history of Baikonur, which almost was not Baikonur
A well illustrated post showing the development of one of the world's most important space launch facilities.
St. Petersburg. A time machine to the 19th century
The entire blog consists of galleries of illustrations in which old photographs are overlaid on contemporary shots of the same locations. But in this instance, it's paintings of 19th century St. Petersburg which are used.
Enjoy your Sunday! Photos by Nadezhda Shibina
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Recently, NASA released colorful, dreamy illustrations depicting an imagined future in which human beings have made it to other worlds. A curly-haired astronaut floats inside a lunar space station, with the crater-pocked moon behind her. A lunar explorer steadies a camera on a tripod to photograph Earth in the distance. And an astronaut stands on the dunes of Mars with her hands in the pockets of her spacesuit, a dog at her side.
To be clear, NASA's ambitious plans for missions to the moon and Mars do not include dogs. (At least, none that the public knows about. If you're a member of a top-secret program to groom doggonauts, please contact me.) The agency does want to send humans there, sometime in the 2030s.
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Engineers "trained" the dogs; they dressed them in spacesuits, kept them in small boxes for days, and put them through rocket-launch simulators. But any pup would do, really. In the fall of 1951, days before his scheduled flight, Bolik the dog somehow managed to run away. Russian engineers, facing a strict deadline, went outside, found a stray, and strapped him in. They named him ZIB, a Russian acronym that stood for "substitute for the vanished Bolik." He completed the mission and returned to Earth safely.
That was a sub-orbital flight, though, which stops short of looping around the Earth. The first dog to truly go to space was Laika, a three-year-old perky-eared mutt, in 1957. Her capsule successfully made it to orbit and remained there for about five months, circling the globe, before plunging back into Earth's atmosphere. But Laika didn't survive. A safe return was never part of the plan. The capsule was designed to run out of oxygen within a week. According to sensors embedded beneath her skin, Laika's heartbeat was triple the normal rate during launch, and her breathing frantic. She died not long after, likely because of the extreme temperatures in the overheated capsule.
Over time, other dogs orbited the Earth and returned alive. Eventually, so did people. Dogs were left on the ground, safe from the threat of being shot into the sky.
But the NASA poster suggests that, unlike the Soviet dogs, a canine on Mars would not be a lab animal, but a valued companion on the journey to a distant land. Even still—imagine life for a dog on Mars. It probably would be miserable.
The journey would begin with a bone-chattering rocket launch. Passengers would feel as much as four times the force of Earth's gravity pressing down on them. The experience is stressful—even some of the best-trained astronauts take off with skyrocketing heart rates. It would be far worse for a passenger who couldn't comprehend what was going on, says Clive Wynne, a psychology professor at Arizona State University who studies canine behavior, and the author of the forthcoming book Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You.
No, there won't. And the technology to build a palatial spaceship like the USS Enterprise is many years away. The first ships to travel to Mars will likely be small and cramped, packed with little more than the essentials, like life-support systems. There won't be much room for astronauts to move around, much less play catch with their canine companion.
The ride would be hard on the bodies of the passengers, human and dog alike, especially if their spacecraft can't produce artificial gravity that keeps their feet and paws on the floor. Without gravity, fluids in the body would float to their heads and congest them. Bones and muscles would thin out. Eyeballs would squish, blurring vision—a medical mystery scientists are still trying to figure out. And without the protection of Earth's magnetic field, the passengers would be exposed to radiation, the high-energy rays that permeate the cosmos, which can increase the risk of cancer.
Human beings can volunteer for this perilous experience, but their dogs can't. "I think it would be inhumane to take a dog on a spaceship," Wynne says.
The challenges would continue on Mars, if humans and their dogs even make it there. The air in the thin atmosphere is unbreathable and the soil toxic. The gravity, about one-third that of Earth, would wreak still more havoc on their bodies. The dog would probably live in a small habitat along with the humans, only venturing outside in a spacesuit.
The problem is the dog's experience inside that spacesuit, which would circulate the same air over and over. Dogs have 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared with just 6 million for humans. They love to sniff just about everything in sight. They can even tell when their humans feel sick. The enclosed environment of a spacesuit would be stifling.
With their sense of smell limited, dogs wouldn't be as useful, since working dogs are trained by scent. Perhaps they could be taught to sniff out certain minerals in the soil, but the investigation would have to be done with samples brought indoors, far from the Martian breeze, where machines could probably do it anyway.
There's also the question of the dog relieving itself. Astronauts wear adult diapers during spacewalks; Mars explorers would have to train their canine companions to become comfortable with a similar arrangement. "I don't know how anyone's going to scoop the poop," Wynne says.
Future generations of Martian dogs, born and raised on the barren planet, would probably be fine. Like children born on Mars, they wouldn't miss the roses or the rain. But if it's going to be this bad for the first canines, why send dogs to Mars at all?
For owners who consider their pets family, it would no doubt be difficult to leave a loved one behind on Earth. "I wouldn't want to go anywhere without my dogs," says Farmer-Dougan, who has five: a golden retriever—her service dog—a poodle, and three special-needs Australian shepherds, two of which are deaf and blind. Sending people to an entirely new planet, decision makers would have to weigh the benefits of companionship and emotional attachment against ethical concerns about animal welfare.
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Some Mars evangelists suggest that the rosy future pictured in NASA's posters would emerge right after arrival. In a recent Popular Mechanics interview, for instance, Elon Musk was asked for his ideas for producing food, water, and fuel. "Once you get there, that stuff is relatively straightforward," he said.
That's quite optimistic. The first Mars missions will likely be perilous and painful. It would be tremendously difficult to keep the humans alive, let alone the dogs that come along. Astronauts would be better off bringing small machines, the common companions of space travels in science fiction. Research has shown that robots can prompt feelings of empathy and bonding in humans, especially when they look like WALL-E. They can roam the Martian landscape for hours, unencumbered by memories of an earthly past.
"I wonder if maybe it would be a better plan to take a cat," he says.


By Mark Smeyers on November 3. 2015 in Huracán.
For the 2015 edition of the famous SEMA show in the United States renowned Vorsteiner came up with a new evolution of their aerokit for the Lamborghini Huracan, after the Verona kit with the famous 'Goose Neck' rear wing with that special hanging style, the new Novara kit is in fact a lot more aggressively styled.
The Novara was in fact inspired by motorsport aerodynamics thanks to Vorsteiner's racing experience, the new kit comes with a new front bumper, side fenders, side sills, rear bumper and a fixed rear wing, while different wheel designs are available and a new stainless steel exhaust system offers better sound ... and more power.
The new front bumper with lower spoiler not only looks good, but thanks to the larger air intakes and modified aerodynamics the Novara bumper not only supplies more air onto the radiators but also improves airflow, the vertical fins direct more air onto the cooling radiators while the special honeycomb protects them from road debris.
The two Vorsteiner front fenders include vents on top of the wheels, finished in clear carbon fiber these ventilation openings actively add downforce, the airflow generated by the wheels push air out of these vents while pushing the front down for a better aerodynamic flow and increased performance.
Those amazing looking side sills not only impress onlookers, but their special design creates an airflow that will improve stability at speed and force air into the rear wheel arches ... again for better cooling purpose naturally.
Probably the most aggressive looks can be found at the rear of the Vorsteiner Novara Huracan, not only because of that massive, clear carbon fiber rear wing on aerospace grade aluminum struts ... but also thanks to the completely redesigned rear bumper. The additional openings actively cool the engine better than original.
The demo car rolls on new V-FF 105 forged wheels in 20-inch, complete with Pirelli P Zero tires ... up front these come in 8.5x20 inch while the rear rims are 11x20 inch, even the interior hasn't been overlooked by the installation of a custom made steering wheel combining clear carbon fiber with leather.
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You have a job and a car and maybe even a spouse and a family and a house or condo, a dog or cat, and a few power toys like a motorcycle or boat. It's what you've always wanted — but it's also not exactly what you were dreaming of when you were young and you imagined what your life would be like.
For one, it's pretty hectic. Turns out, having all of those things in your life means you have to sacrifice some other things — like your health and sanity, for one. With so many things to juggle, you end up making a lot of unhealthy choices.
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In case you have just a wee bit of time to sit back and assess your life — or perhaps you're considering to take on yet one more thing and you aren't sure whether it's going to work for you, take some time to see how having that busy, busy, busy life can also lead to a lot of unhealthy choices.
Your mother told you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but with the late nights you've been pullin, in order to get your work done and maybe have a little bit of time to spend with your friends, family or dogs, you're staying up way too late every night. That, in turn, causes you to press the snooze button on the alarm a few too many times, and skip breakfast in the morning. That then causes you to be a little foggier than you should be for that daily morning meeting — that is, if you make it to work on time at all.
You started out the day tired and rushed, so what else did you forget to do? Brew the morning cup of coffee. That's OK though, because you have that local coffee shop just a block away from the office. You may be really busy at the office, but not so busy that you can't justify a quick trip to the coffee shop for a sugar and calorie-laden caffeine delight. And the real way you justify it to yourself is that you're walking there, so you can knock "working out" off your list of important things to do each day.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might say that "10 minutes of exercise a day is fine," but they really want you to go for more like 30 minutes each day — which means your five-minute walk is definitely not cutting it. So, this is yet another way, your busy life is causing you to make excuses and to live an unhealthy existence.
You've taken on too much at work in the quest to get ahead, but that means there are really not enough hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks you promised the boss you'd do. So what do you do? Skip lunch. Or rather, head to the vending machine for a packet of chips and a cookie — topped off with a soda — to serve as your lunch. Never mind that you haven't given your body any protein and that what you've really done is heaped a lot of sugar onto your meager plate — you're going to get a lot of stuff accomplished! That is, until mid-afternoon hits and you experience a sugar crash!
It's been a heck of a day, and after working well past five p.m., you and your workmates are more than ready to let off a little steam. It's off to the bar for happy hour, where you plan to spend just one hour before heading home to deal with the rest of your duties. But wait — you and your co-workers are having so much fun dishing about the boss and coming up with new ideas for the latest project, that you decide to order a burger and fries and another beer. That's a good dinner, right? Tally up the food and drinks you've consumed for the day and there you have it-the most unhealthy food consumption you could possibly have one day.
When you're living a life in balance, you might have a little more time to stop, relax and smell the roses. You might also have more time to spend on walking or cycling to where you need to go instead of driving everywhere. When you're busy, you're not likely to walk to the grocery store that's three blocks away, are you? Nope.
If you're in the car a lot, you're naturally getting less exercise than you could be. What's more, you may be rolling around with a terrible case of road rage. Do you get angry when someone doesn't race out of a traffic light? Ever honked your horn at someone for not letting you pass as quickly as you'd liked? Yep, you're road raging — and that is not good for your physical or mental health.
For some people, not having enough hours in the day causes them to turn to uppers or other recreational drugs that help them move faster or get more done without freaking out. That, of course, is not sustainable, nor is it a sign of a healthy lifestyle.
7. Have you Called Your Mother Lately?
The relationships we maintain help us stay healthy and maintain good mental health. Heck, you've probably even heard that having a pet can help to reduce people's stress levels. It turns out that having people care for us — or caring for others — is good for us. So, if your busy life means you've let relationships with your parents, other family or your spouse or kids slip, it's probably time to bring things back into balance. Your mom might like to nag you, but she still cares for you the most.
Ever heard of a little thing called stress? If any of the above descriptions sound like you, then you're definitely living under it. With long hours, a lot of responsibilities, and poor nutrition to boot, you're definitely at risk of suffering some ill effects of stress.
Stress can cause any number of health effects, including heart conditions, migraines, poor blood sugar handling, stomach upset, and breathing problems. Let those things go on too long and your "little problem" can turn into chronic disease. So, if your busy life is leading to little aches and pains that have turned into even bigger aches and pains, it's probably time to re-evaluate how you're living.
It's easy enough to tell someone to "slow down" or to "relieve stress," but it's often harder to actually accomplish it. Sometimes, it requires letting go of responsibilities that are making your life more difficult. Have a house that requires constant maintenance? Maybe it's time to move into a smaller place. Have a job that's taking up all of your time and damaging your relationships with the people who matter? Maybe it's time to scale back.