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Behavioral Corporate Finance: The Life…
Behavioral Corporate Finance: The Life Cycle of a CEO Career
Marius Guenzel & Ulrike Malmendier
Working Paper 27635
DOI 10.3386/w27635
Issue Date August 2020
One of the fastest-growing areas of finance research is the study of managerial biases and their implications for firm outcomes. Since the mid-2000s, this strand of behavioral corporate finance has provided theoretical and empirical evidence on the influence of biases in the corporate realm, such as overconfidence, experience effects, and the sunk-cost fallacy. The field has been a leading force in dismantling the argument that traditional economic mechanisms— selection, learning, and market discipline—would suffice to uphold the rational-manager paradigm. Instead, the evidence reveals that behavioral forces exert a significant influence at every stage of a chief executive officer's (CEO's) career. First, at the appointment stage, selection does not impede the promotion of behavioral managers. Instead, competitive environments oftentimes promote their advancement, even under value-maximizing selection mechanisms. Second, while at the helm of the company, learning opportunities are limited, since many managerial decisions occur at low frequency, and their causal effects are clouded by self-attribution bias and difficult to disentangle from those of concurrent events. Third, at the dismissal stage, market discipline does not ensure the firing of biased decision-makers as board members themselves are subject to biases in their evaluation of CEOs.
By documenting how biases affect even the most educated and influential decision-makers, such as CEOs, the field has generated important insights into the hard-wiring of biases. Biases do not simply stem from a lack of education, nor are they restricted to low-ability agents. Instead, biases are significant elements of human decision-making at the highest levels of organizations.
An important question for future research is how to limit, in each CEO career phase, the adverse effects of managerial biases. Potential approaches include refining selection mechanisms, designing and implementing corporate repairs, and reshaping corporate governance to account not only for incentive misalignments but also for biased decision-making.
Acknowledgements and Disclosures
The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Glowy: What sneakers is Kcee Wearing?
What sneakers is Kcee Wearing?
Kcee shared this pix on sunday showing us his sunday outfit and i honestly i love it from head to sundau...biko i hope he didn't wear that earrings to church ooo..
He wore an orange native outfit [kcee dear who is ya tailor?}and finished up a ---------------- ya'll all should finish it by telling us what he wore... i ask this questions so that ya'll can also be able to tell them designer shoes apart.
p.s: ayam still in my birthday spirit biko.some of my birthday wish is been fufilled.
ROFL@he wore an orange native who is your tailor.Lol. I really don't like the sandals. Its too dramatic for a man.


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Q: IntelliJ code completion like Xcode & Eclipse How do I get the code completion in IntelliJ to act like Xcode/Eclipse?
This meaning, typing a method that takes parameters, and when you select the method from the auto-complete list:
intToString(int val);

In Eclipse, you'll get:
intToString( (val-placeholder) );

and similar in Xcode.
However, in IntelliJ, all you get is:
intToString();

How do you get placeholders for parameters in IntelliJ?

A: There is no such feature in IntelliJ IDEA. Similar functionality is already implemented in AppCode, so it's possible that it will be ported to IntelliJ IDEA in a future release.

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Thermal analysis is an excellent method for the characterization of elastomers because their properties are strongly dependent on temperature.
Elastomers can be stretched or compressed but return to their original dimensions or shape when the applied stress is released. The term elastomer is derived from the words elastic polymer and is often used interchangeably with the term rubber.
At ambient temperatures, elastomers are relatively soft and deformable. Their main industrial uses are for seals, tires, engine mounts, and flexible molded parts.
DSC is used to measure events in which a change in enthalpy occurs. These include the glass transition, reaction enthalpy, vulcanization reactions, melting, crystallization, and thermal stability.
TGA measures weight changes and is widely used for the analysis of elastomers. The main applications have to do with compositional analysis, fillers and additives as well as chemical reactions such as decomposition, oxidation and vulcanization, and last but not least evaporation, desorption and vaporization.
TMA and DMA are used to measure the mechanical behavior and properties of materials. TMA applications include expansion, shrinkage, softening and the glass transition. DMA is the method of choice for characterizing the viscoelastic behavior of materials, the glass transition, and the frequency-dependence of effects.


This is the review of Final Form Ride FFR00 Kamen Rider Decade (Masked Rider Decade) from the TV series of the same title (Kamen Rider Decade / Masked Rider Decade).
Details wise it's quite OK, nothing great to shout about but I personally think that the S.I.C. Kiwami Tamashii figures are far more better when it comes to the sculpt and details quality.
It's good to know that this figure can still do this kneeling pose... a standard articulation test procedure in Shewsbury Land.
Size comparison with SH Figuarts (Shocker Rider), S.I.C. Kiwami Tamashii (Ryuki), 1/144 scale Gundam, Hasbro's Star Wars figure (Hans Solo) and Figma Tsukasa.
The reason why I compare this FFR figure with SH Figuarts figure is simply because of the price.
From the size comparison photo above, you can see that the SH Figuarts is taller than the FFR.
My personal opinion based on my observation between these 2 figures, SH Figuarts is basically the winner. They have better proportion, brilliant articulation and pivot points, more dynamic limbs movement range, slightly better materials and better quality even though the average price is only slightly higher price than the FFR series.
So now let's have a look at the weapons that comes with this FFR Kamen Rider Decade.
But before we go further, have a look at the hands... this FFR figure doesn't give you any extra/optional hands like SH Figuarts did.
The hands basically have good articulation - just like those Gundams (GunPlaMo kits) from the 1/100 MG series.
Overall, despite the weakness here and there, I still think that this action figure is some how quite fun to play with. It has decent articulations and pivot points and all the weapons that you need. As it is, this FFR Kamen Rider Decade is... fun - and I personally like it a lot.
At 2,300 yen (about SGD 37.00) I will not buying this action figure though. I think at that price it is expensive knowing that the more superior S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Decade is available at 2,800 yen (about SGD 45.00).
But since at the time when we bought this figure, we managed to get huge discounts and end up paying only 805 yen (about SGD 13.00) - plus a bonus of 76% discount on shipment at that time.... certainly a great bargain not to be missed.
And you can also get the Final Form Ride FFR11 Kamen Rider Decade Complete Form as well.


He wasn't wrong. A little nuts but not wrong.
Also (this isn't aimed at you) I love how the Right will simultaneously accuse Obama of being a Muslim AND condemn his (religious) association with a pro-terrosism, extremist PROTESTANT cleric. Which is it, secret Muslim or fundamentalist Christian?
then we live in very different worlds.
no, it had nothing to do with white vs. non-white. that's just your inner racist talking.
People that are protesting the Inauguration have a weak constitution.
The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barrack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over, and is of no use to the country."
"I don't think Americans are that different from the rest of humanity"
Americans are just like everyone else --- only more so --- unfortunately!
Then why all the whining like a snowflake?
I'm quite happy with our current president and calling out the hypocritical, hate-filled, leftist zombies is an enjoyable pastime.
I'm not the 1 projecting. You do realize you're in the (hilariously small) minority of Americans supporting Trump, yes?
Of the 2 insane idiots, Kim seems the more reasonable of the 2.
I do hope the crazies on the right that like to go on about how they'd win a civil war in a week mopping up anti-gun leftists take note of this.


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Ben Edwards: Big Bang Theory
"I'm a very KO or be KOed kind of guy."
International Kickboxer Magazine, Jan/Feb 2012
Australia's great heavyweight hope, Ben 'The Guv'ner' Edwards caught up with JARROD BOYLE to look at all that awaits him on the international fight scene.
At 27 years of age, Ben Edwards has only been fighting for seven years. In that time, he has managed to assert himself not only at home in Australia, but also, on the international stage. He took his first steps toward it early in his career, on the K1 Kings of Oceania promotion in 2005. He met the man who may well be described as his nemesis, fellow Australian Paul Slowinski. It was Ben's twelfth fight, against the man who held the WMC World Heavyweight title. The learning curve in heavyweight kickboxing, particularly in this region of the world, is steep.
"He fought me like a professional," Ben remembers. "He was patient, technical, and knew that I was scared. I ran in as hard as I could and he fought me accordingly." It was a hard, and no doubt painful lesson; Paul ended their first meeting in the second round, by way of leg kicks. "I was thrown in the deep end. I started fighting at K1 level in 2005, and I lost most of those fights. I fought Slowinski, Peter Sampson, and Jay Hepi. It was good for me, though; when you get thrown in the deep end, you have to sink or swim."
It must be hard to undergo such a difficult test so early, in such a public way. When asked about it, Ben defines what may be ascribed as the secret of his success. "I'm philosophical about it. You have to put it in perspective. I kept going because I love it. I don't fight to win; I fight because I love it. It feels like the right thing to do. I enjoy it whether I win or lose. I enjoy the lifestyle – it keeps you down-to-earth. It's hard to get above yourself when you get punched in the head every day! Most of my friendship group came through kickboxing. Kickboxing gave me identity. It helped to build my self-esteem."
Ben started kickboxing at twenty years of age, training under John Verran. "I always wanted to give it a crack. It turned out to be the best thing I ever did." Prior to that, he was a committed rugby league player. "I was a first division player for the Canberra junior Raiders until I was 17. Then, I played first grade for the Queenbeyan Blues."
While Ben has really punched holes in Australian kickboxing to make room for his reputation, he initially seemed more comfortable with his kicking. "I always had the power [in my hands]," he says, "but I didn't have the skills to really let them go. I've really been studying boxing over the last few years. Up here in Canberra, we've got the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport). I have a lot to thank them for, especially the coach, Gary Hamilton, and fighters Steve Rudic and Alexei Muchin. I found that once your hands get going, it sets up your kicks much better."
Ben has already found considerable success in professional boxing, a sport with not only a greater mainstream appeal than kickboxing, but more money. He won his first three fights by knockout, and recently came to a draw for an Australian title.
"I love boxing, but my passion is kickboxing. It's the most exciting fighting style," he says. "Boxing is probably a lot more technical, but slower-paced because of the rounds ahead of you. With kickboxing, because of the hands, legs and knees it's more open with technique and with only three rounds, you go for it one hundred per- cent. Boxing is more of a grind, while kickboxing is more of a shootout.
"John Verran was my trainer when I started, and he was more than just a trainer – he was very much a father figure. He passed away in 2009, right before my first world title fight. It made me realise how important kickboxing was to me. From then on, I started taking it seriously. That fight would have been somewhere in the high twenties. I think the results speak for themselves." This is as close to 'confidence' as Ben becomes through out the course of the interview. Otherwise, he is self-effacing and fulfils his description of himself as a 'down-to-earth Aussie bloke'.
"The K1 Oceania in 2010 was unreal," Ben remembers. "I'd never felt a crowd like that since I fought Hoppa (John Hopoate, a former rugby player disbarred for digital rape. Ben knocked him out in the first). "Canberra has an awesome little fight community. When there's a big fight night on, the place goes crazy." When asked about his nerves before meeting Slowinski in the projected final, Ben says that "I felt better from the experience of the two losses. I knew I could carry it with me." That said, Paul Slowinski has regained his crown as International Kickboxer's top-ranked heavyweight and stands opposite Ben as Australia's highest-profile, internationally active heavyweight.
Ben's next foray onto the international stage came as part of the 2010 K1 Final 16. "A film crew came out to Canberra and spent a day filming me for the trailer. They also interviewed my mum and dad. It was exciting!" Not so exciting was the news of his scheduled opponent, Alistair Overeem, the Darth Vader of the martial arts world.
"We learned I was fighting Alistair a month out. My manager tried pretty hard to get me a more even fight. He's a massive guy, really hard to hurt. I threw everything and tried to blow him out of the water. I knew I was out of my depth I fought scared and wasted my energy. Realistically, I didn't even have a shot."
As with his other losses, Ben remains philosophical. "I signed with Showtime in Holland. I fight in Romania on November 17 as part of an 8 man tournament, containing many of the blokes who would otherwise be in this years' Final 16. I have to watch out for Errol Zimmerman. He's the favourite, and probably the biggest name in it. We're not expecting anything from K1 until next year. Hopefully they'll sort themselves out by that time."
Ben is set for a stellar 2012. He is fighting Ricardo Van Den Bos on the undercard for the Gokhan Saki/Badr Hari fight in The Netherlands. This one will be of particular interest to Aussie fight fans; Van Den Bos famously elected to throw in the towel when he stood opposite Paul Slowinski at the WMC heavyweight 8-man GP in 2005 in order to get paid, rather than pulling out in order that the crowd might see a final against a more capable, less-injured opponent. "After that, I'll be fighting Rico Verhoeven down here in Canberra, on 'Capital Punishment'. Verhoeven has also cut his teeth in K1 and is currently trained by Peter Aerts.
All this excitement doesn't undermine Ben's 'down-to-earth Aussie bloke' status, however. He works as the business development manager for Bleasedale National Contractors. "My boss is Jason Croker, a former Raider's player. He understands the demands of professional sport, so he's flexible." After the interview comes to a close Ben sends a text, asking that I 'mention in the article [his] appreciation for all the time and effort manager Nick Boutzos and Jamie McCuaig put into [him]." Ben understands that the Australian kickboxing community coheres around him like a family and when he goes into the ring alone, whether it's in Canberra or Romania or Holland, he carries the group efforts, as well as the thoughts and wishes, of his family and the community he comes from with him.
This entry was posted on February 17, 2012 at 5:47 pm and is filed under Journalism, Kickboxing with tags Alistair Overeem, Ben Edwards, K1 Final Elimination 2010, K1 Kings of Oceania, Mick Siebert, Nick Boutzos, Paul Slowinski.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Rutgers puts streak on line vs Illinois
Jan 9, 2020 at 12:31p ET
Rutgers (12-3, 3-1) vs. Illinois (11-5, 3-2)
State Farm Center, Champaign, Illinois; Saturday, 12 a.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Rutgers looks for its seventh straight win of the season as it battles Illinois. Rutgers is looking to extend its current six-game winning streak. Illinois is coming off a 71-70 road win over Wisconsin on Wednesday.
TEAM LEADERSHIP: The Scarlet Knights are led by sophomores Ron Harper Jr. and Myles Johnson. Harper has averaged 12.4 points and 6.3 rebounds while Johnson has recorded 9.7 points and 8.8 rebounds per contest. The Fighting Illini have been led by Kofi Cockburn and Ayo Dosunmu, who have combined to score 30.3 points per outing.
CLAMPING DOWN: The Fighting Illini have given up only 60.8 points per game across five conference games, an improvement from the 68 per game they gave up to non-conference opponents.ROBUST RON: Harper has connected on 30 percent of the 50 3-pointers he's attempted and has made 6 of 16 over his last five games. He's also converted 72.2 percent of his foul shots this season.
STREAK STATS: Illinois has won its last four home games, scoring an average of 74.5 points while giving up 54.5.
PASSING FOR POINTS: The Illini have recently created baskets via assists more often than the Scarlet Knights. Illinois has an assist on 39 of 76 field goals (51.3 percent) across its past three matchups while Rutgers has assists on 42 of 94 field goals (44.7 percent) during its past three games.
DID YOU KNOW: Illinois is ranked fourth among Division I teams with an offensive rebound percentage of 38.7 percent. The Fighting Illini have averaged 13.3 offensive boards per game.


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NEW BOSE SOUNDLINK® COLOUR BLUETOOTH® SPEAKER II
The Much-Loved Colour Gets Updated with Water-Resistance, New Design
May 8, 2017 -- Today, Bose announces a new member of its iconic SoundLink Bluetooth speaker family: the SoundLink Colour II. With a more rugged water-resistant design, new colours, and the bold sound of the original, the Colour II offers an even better combination of performance, durability and fun than its predecessor, making it ideal to take just about anywhere.
The Colour II connects wirelessly to smartphones and tablets to play streaming music in an instant. It packs a punch using Bose's proprietary dual-opposing passive radiators which brilliantly turn vibration in to powerful output, maximizing every inch of its small enclosure. At about 12.8cm wide and high, and 2.54cm deep — and weighing just 0.54kg — the Colour defies its size, playing loud, low, and clear.
The Colour II is built for real-life. Its improved durability features an IPX4-rating for water-resistance to withstand pool splashes, spills, or getting caught in the rain. Its new soft-touch silicone exterior has a great look and feel, and helps absorb more dings, drops and bumps. And it comes in new colours — Aquatic Blue, Coral Red, Soft Black and Polar White.
The Colour II is engineered for immediate gratification. Integrated NFC technology offers touch-to-pair convenience, and set-up is fool-proof with plain-language voice-prompts. It features a built-in microphone for taking calls and accessing Siri, Google Now™, and other phone VPAs. The lithium-ion battery will last for up to eight hours and is fully rechargeable via a USB port. And with the super-streamlined Bose Connect app, features and functionality are at your fingertips — connect devices, switch between them, update software, and more.
The SoundLink Colour Bluetooth Speaker II is available in May for HKD 1,098. The SoundLink line is sold at Bose retail stores and authorized dealers. The Bose Connect app is available for download now on the App Store® or Google Play™. Additional information can be found at Bose.hk.
ABOUT BOSE CORPORATION
Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, then a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, the company is driven by its founding principles, investing in long-term research with one fundamental goal: to develop new technologies with real customer benefits. Bose innovations have spanned decades and industries, creating and transforming categories in audio and beyond. Bose products for the home, in the car, on the go and in public spaces have become iconic, changing the way people listen to music.
Bose Corporation is privately held. The company's spirit of invention, passion for excellence, and commitment to extraordinary experiences can be found around the world -- everywhere Bose does business.
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The TeleSkeleton has eight joints that you can control (shoulders, elbows, hips and knees). Each joint accepts a position command from 1 through 9, so a full pose can be specified by an 8 digit number. Lower numbers are lower (or left) joint positions, and a joint position of 5 is the middle position.
At some point we will allow you to submit lists of poses for full motion, but for now, you can specify one pose at a time. Each pose takes one second to complete.
There are three ways to control the system (specify the poses). No matter which way you choose, the commands end up the same and are displayed in all the input fields.
We've added some stock pose image buttons to make it easier - just click on them! The skeleton will move to that pose, and the command for that pose will be shown.
The second control breaks each joint into it's own text field. Just put a digit from 1 through 9 into each box, and click the Send Command button.
If the command screen is inactive for 1 minute, the skeleton may move to a neutral pose to conserve the servo motors. Also, the main page will move to a timeout page after 5 minutes to give other people a chance and save bandwidth. You can always go back to the control page if that happens.
The Command Queue shows you a list fo the commands being sent from users around the world. When your command gets to the top, the skeleton will move to your commanded pose. Your commands are highlighted in yellow. If the command is in red means your browser is processing the commands, and that command was just sent.
You can discuss or ask questions about the TeleSkeleton at the TeleSkeleton Forum.
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In early 2019, the Bucerius Kunst Forum will turn its attention to the short era between the world wars with the exhibition World in Transition: Art of the 1920s. This period of extremes will be illuminated based on around 45 paintings and over 100 photographs from the movement known as New Objectivity, or New Vision, shown side-by-side here for the first time. This juxtaposition enables the show to trace the interrelationships between the two mediums while at the same time spotlighting a style that, with its objective reproduction of reality, became the leading art movement of the Weimar Republic.
Featured are works by Aenne Biermann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Otto Dix, Hugo Erfurth, Carl Grossberg, Florence Henri, Hannah Höch, Karl Hubbuch, Germaine Krull, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Walter Peterhans, Max Radler, August Sander, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz, Sasha Stone, Umbo u.a.
This exhibition was created in cooperation with the Münchner Stadtmuseum. The exhibition will be shown in Munich in 2020.
The exhibition is taking place as part of the anniversary year 100 years of Bauhaus and of the Hamburger Architektursommer 2019.


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The Sharon Talon
The Student Voice of Sharon High School
February 27, 2020 March 24, 2020 thesharontalon
Kobe's Death Shakes Up the Country
By: Malachi Diaz (Correspondent)
Depressing news shocked the world on January 26th, 2020 when NBA legend Kobe Bryant passed away while he was in route to coach his daughter's basketball game.
While he was on his way to coach his daughter, Gigi's, basketball game, Kobe's helicopter crashed into a mountain by Calabasas, California on January 26th, 2020. Flying through poor weather conditions, the pilot steered the helicopter too low to the ground.
Sharon High School freshman Sebastian Brathwaite says he was a huge fan of Kobe Bryant and looked up to him as someone who had a great mindset. "I have his jerseys in my room, I always watched him when he came on, and his sudden death was just an overall shock to me that sent me into a slight depression for a week," said Brathwaite.
Brathwaite adds that Kobe inspired him greatly throughout his life. "Kobe was my hero and an inspiration to me and he made me have that killer mindset to want to improve myself and be the best that I can be at everything I do, but also to improve others around me," said Brathwaite.
Sharon High School freshman Talha Kausar says that Kobe was one of his favorite players and he enjoyed the respect people were giving Kobe by wearing his number. "Kobe was my favorite player and—I am sure—many other people's favorite player, and I found it very lovely how players wore his number pre-game," said Kausar.
Kausar says he saw players like Trae Young wear Kobe's number, as well as the whole Lakers team warm up in a mix of number 8 and 24 jerseys in honor of Kobe. "It was the right thing to do considering Kobe inspired many players worldwide," he said.
"Kobe was one of those players everyone just seemed to love and had respect for and it really is showing right now," added Kausar.
Sharon High School freshman, Amaan Ahmad, says he loved to see how players are paying tribute to Kobe by taking a 24-second shot clock violation and an 8-second backcourt violation.
"It's just great to see you know, Kobe was a competitor, but at the end of the day he still had everyone's respect and players still held him with high regard teammate or not and the violations are just part of them showing that," said Ahmad.
Fans packed the Staples Center in Los Angeles where Bryant played all his NBA home games for an internationally broadcasted memorial for the Hall of Fame inductee.
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Q: file.lastModifiedDate; not work in cordova iphone app
file.lastModifiedDate;
  Does not work in cordova iphone app(it works finely in Android and other latest browsers).
  It returns only uploaded time.
  Pls give a reason for that.
  Thanks.

A: file.lastModifiedDate; Returns the last modified date of the file. Files without a known last modified date use the current date instead.
And it is not supported in Safari (WebKit).


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Talking to patients...
Talking to patients about cancer
BMJ 1996; 313 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7059.699 (Published 21 September 1996) Cite this as: BMJ 1996;313:699
Robert Buckman, Medical oncologist
Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
No excuse now for not doing it
An extraordinary thing about the medical profession is that it managed to avoid telling the truth to patients for so many centuries. In 1672 the French physician Samuel de Sorbiere considered the idea but thought that it might seriously jeopardise medical practice and concluded that it would not catch on.1 This approach—recognising the need to act but finding excuses not to—is still in evidence today, even though there has been a considerable change over the past 35 years. Two papers in this week's journal remind us that what is comfortable for clinicians is not necessarily what patients want.
In 1961, a landmark paper by Oken showed that 90% of surgeons in the United States would not routinely discuss a diagnosis of cancer with their patients.2 However, several studies subsequently showed that a growing proportion of cancer patients wanted to know their diagnosis. The proportion of patients wanting to know has varied in different studies, depending on the locale and the sample (Northouse has done an excellent overview3, but has often been in excess of 90%.
Medical practice has gradually changed to meet patients' needs, particularly in the United States, and nearly 20 years after the Oken study, Novack et al repeated the survey. They showed that by then, there had been a sea change in clinical attitudes, with more than 90% of American physicians saying that they would tell their patients if they had cancer.4 In view of this, the crucial question in truth telling should perhaps have moved on from whether to tell patients, to what to tell them—and how. Sadly, this is not yet the case—certainly not in many areas of Europe and in Britain. A survey of European gastroenterologists in 1993 showed that nearly 60% of responders did not routinely tell their patients of a cancer diagnosis if the patient did not ask.5 A survey of British general practitioners and hospital consultants in the early 1980s showed that 75% and 56% respectively did not routinely tell their patients.6 By contrast, in the United States (and to a slightly lesser extent in Canada), medicolegal practice has now enshrined the patients' rights to truth, not only in the codes of ethical practice but in case law.
Of course, this has disadvantages; being told the truth (without regard to your own wishes, the manner in which the news is imparted, or the underlying nature of the doctor-patient relationship) can be just as upsetting as being lied to. Centuries of systematic insensitive deception cannot be instantly remedied by a new routine of systematic insensitive truth telling.
It is not hard to understand the main reasons for avoiding sharing bad news with patients. It is unpleasant to be the bearer of bad news and to have to support and assist patients as they absorb and understand the nature of their medical situation. Traditionally, clinicians have found two main justifications for keeping patients in the dark. Firstly, the facts might upset them. This is undoubtedly true, but (legal considerations aside) that line of reasoning has never been acceptable to any other profession in which news might be bad—accountants, bankers, magistrates, stockbrokers, building societies, and so on. Secondly, they presumed that patients don't really want to know.
Two papers in this week's BMJ remove the last vestiges of rationality from both arguments. Meredith et al (p 724) studied 250 patients attending an oncology centre in Scotland; 79% of patients wanted as much information as possible and 96% specifically wanted to know if their illness was cancer.7 Almost all patients wanted to know the chance of cure and the side effects of treatment. In Benson and Britten's smaller study (p 729), patients reported feeling that they had certain rights to have information about their diagnosis and that they should have a say in who else was told.8 All patients felt that family members should be told if the patient had given permission, but nearly two thirds felt that if the patient did not wish the information given the family should not be told, and that information should not be released without consent except in certain circumstances.
Important as these results are, they cannot tell us how to break bad news. Almost all of us still feel some (often much) discomfort during an interview about cancer, and perhaps anxieties about technique are behind most arguments for not telling the truth. Most of us have not been taught how to break bad news sensitively and supportively, and as in all branches of clinical practice we all have a tendency to avoid doing any procedure if we are uncertain of our expertise. Yet over the past decade or so, such expertise has become available to almost anyone who wants to acquire it. There are courses in many medical schools,9 there are books10 and videos11 that describe in detail the practicalities of breaking bad news (including ways of finding out whether the patient wants to know or not), and there are now courses for practising oncologists that use role play and video recordings to show how to learn and improve the techniques.12 There is even some material available for patients to help them get the best out of communications with the doctor,13 although we should not need our patients' help in order to help them.
Nowadays there is no excuse for physicians who simply don't want to perform this important part of our job. It needs to be done and it can be done. It has been said that if the breaking of bad news is done badly, patients and their families (or often their lawyers) may never forgive us, but if it is done well they will never forget us. As this week's two papers show, our patients want, expect, and need the truth from us. There are simple, practical techniques that we can learn and use to tell our patients the truth if they want to know, and we no longer have any excuse for avoiding it.
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Advice to a young physician respecting the way in which he is to conduct himself in the practice of medicine, in view of the indifference of the public to the subject, and considering the complaints that are made about physicians (1672). Quoted in: Katz J. The silent world of doctor and patient. New York: Free Press, 1984: 102.
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Bennett JM
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Symonds P,
Webster L,
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. Information needs of cancer patients in the west of Scotland. BMJ1996:313:7246.
Benson J,
Britten N
. How much truth and to whom? Respecting the autonomy of cancer patients when talking with their families–ethical theory and the patients' view. BMJ1996:313:72931.
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Why won't they talk to me? [video set]. Fleet, Hampshire: Linkward Productions,1985.
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What you really need to know about cancer–a comprehensive guide for patients and their families. London: Macmillan,1996.
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The Dual Tones aka The Dolphins (3)
Par dion1 le 12 May 2011 à 06:11
The Dolphins (3) Port Chester, New York)
aka The Dual Tones
James Cascio
Anthony Fotia
The Dual Tones
1959 - Bubble-Gum Bop! / I'll Belong To You (Sabre 203)
1961 - Rainbow's End / One More For The Road (Empress 102)
The Dolphins were were James Cascio and Anthony Fotia. They were from Port Chester, New York. In 1959, James and Anthony recorded two songs : "Bubble-Gum Bop!" b/w "I'll Belong To You". The single was released on the tiny Sabre records in New York. they were billed as the Dual Tones. They had the pleasure of appearing on the stage of an Allan Freed show in the Catskills back in 1959 were and they backed up Johnny Maestro on "16 Candles".
At the end of the year 1960, James Cascio and Anthony Fotia sign a recording contract with Empress and change their name to the Dolphins . Empress was a subsidiary of Valmor Records. The Valmor Company was started in the fall of 1960 in New York city. It was a division of Countess, international, and owned and run by Gene and Jody Malis (Jody often used her maiden name, Cameron).
In 1961, Valmor opened the subsidiary label, Empress. The Empress label lasted about a year and only released 8 singles. The new renamed Dolphins recorded two ballads : "Rainbow's End" and "One More For The Road" released on Empress 102. After the empress release, Anthony Fotia moved to the Bronx.
One More For The Road Rainbow's End
I'll Belong To You Bubble-Gum Bop!
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Spring King of the Creek
Wed May 31, 2023 - Sun Jun 04, 2023
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Schedule: Friday-June 2: First two rounds immediately after the main event. Saturday-June 3: Ran to completion after the main event. 1 driver may drive 2 cars. No doubles in the same car.
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The Spring King of the Creek 25's returns to Maryland International Raceway June 1st – 4th! This event is the first of the series and will remain the largest big dollar bracket series of the year at MIR! Classes this year include Top ET, Mod ET, and Junior Dragster. Top ET will be racing for $10k on Thursday, $25k on Friday and Saturday and an additional $10k on Sunday. Mod ET Racers will race for $2k on Friday, $5k on Saturday and $2k on Sunday. Junior Dragsters will race for $2k on Saturday and Sunday. There are only 60 Junior Dragster entries available.
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Sonny Bill Williams, victorious in Brisbane in February 2013. Picture: Jono Searle
SBW snubs Gallen for Bachelorette brawl
BACHELORETTE winner Stu Laundy knows NRL star Paul Gallen will be gunning for him.
The TV personality has pulled off a coup in organising for superstar Sonny Bill Williams to return to boxing, after three years out of the game, for a special charity fight night in Sydney on December 1.
The only problem for Laundy is he will have to fight the freak athlete.
Williams is also foregoing the huge potential payday of fighting Gallen to instead raise money for two charity foundations in a fight that's being promoted as the "Banger under the hanger" on Sydney Harbour.
Laundy, also known for his appearances on SBS documentary Filthy Rich and Homeless, has cooked up the concept to raise money and awareness for homeless support charities the Exodus Foundation and the Bill Crews Charitable Trust.
The reality TV star said he was prepared to get knocked out to raise funds for the charitable organisations.
He admits it is a very real possibility.
"He may drop me, who knows?" Laundy said.
Sonny Bill Williams knows how to throw.
"He's six or seven fights in so he's going to be a very good fighter, but who knows?
"Sonny has a fair few kilos on me and a fair bit of ability as well, but other than that it's nothing impossible.
"I'm not scared of anything. Honestly, I'm not scared at all. Really I'm not. Sonny is a beast, but beasts can be taken down.
"I've been throwing drunk guys out of pubs for 30 years. Sure some of them are drunk, but some of them are monsters."
Laundy will be making his boxing debut at the gala dinner, but says he has sparred in training previously.
The fight will be sanctioned by the NSW Combat Sports Authority, but the exact details are yet to be confirmed.
Fighters are expected to wear headgear and Laundy says he believes he can go a full six rounds with Williams in the ring.
Sophie Monk and Stu Laundy following the finale of The Bachelorette.
In the 14 weeks leading up to the fight, Laundy will be training with Aussie boxing legend Jeff Fenech.
Fenech has also agreed to fight at the event and will step into the ring against high-profile millionaire businessman Mark Bouris.
Williams, who will be fighting to raise money for Kiwi foundation, The Auckland City Mission, has agreed to fight Laundy just one week after his All Blacks' European Tour finishes in Italy on November 24.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has already said he sees no problem with Williams fighting so soon after he's expected to play three Tests for New Zealand overseas.
"Look, from my understanding I think it's a very, very low-key fight and it's about raising money for the homeless in Sydney and for the Auckland City Mission," Hansen said.
"He is pretty confident, I've spoken to Khoder (Williams' agent Khoder Nasser), and Khoder's confident that what's going to take place won't be of hindrance to him, so you've got to back their judgement and from what I understand it shouldn't be too much of a task."
Laundy said he expected his associates to fork out some serious cash for charity if he stepped into a boxing ring with Williams.
"If I'm fighting Sonny Bill Williams they're going to open their wallets up, I can tell you that much," Laundy said.
"All my wealthy mates better watch out because I'll be gunning for them."
Laundy is philisophical about the huge challenge he has ahead of him.
"If I knock out SBW, Gallen's next," he said.
To get involved with The Exodus Foundation, click here.
To get involved with the Auckland City Mission, click here.
Sonny Bill admits to NRL 'handshake deal'
Stu reveals truth about Sophie Monk relationship
'Sh**, I can't cry': Sophie's breakdown over Laundy breakup
Gallen eyes fight with Comm Games champ
Fans fume over 'disgusting' Bach premiere
Gallen's four-legged Shark has Group 1 potential
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Stephen W. Terrell's (MUSIC) Web Log: BUT HE TOLD ME HE WAS "COMPLETELY INNOCENT"
Manny Aragon, former state Senate president pro-tem and Majority Leader, pleaded guilty this morning to three federal felony counts of conspiracy and mail fraud in the Metropolitan Courthouse scandal.
According to his plea agreement, he'll serve 5 and a half years in federal prison.
Read an Associated Press account HERE.
But just a year ago, I covered his arraignment, after which he told reporters, "Those of you who were in the courtroom know that I have pleaded not guilty. I have only one further statement. I am completely innocent."
I wonder if this means the National Hispanic Culture Center will change the name of this tower?


Spring Fair at Teles Patisserie this Sunday!
Just a quick quick reminder that our Spring Fair is this Sunday, 24th March, in our Patisserie with the cooperation of Yare Valley Farm.
The times will be between 10.30 and… well 3.30 but being the weather nice as it is meant to be it will be until we close at 5.00.
From 12.00 onwards we will have the very talented Emma Nuule singing for all of us. She will be buskin so please try to come down and support her. You will not regret it. Her voice is glorious.
Oh… and of course cakes are inside with us Hihihi the farm shop will be stocked and ready to serve all your needs as usual.


This effect will baffle ANY audience. Display a small board with six panels. Three on top, three on the bottom. Write predictions inside the top squares and hide them from the audience. You can then ask the spectator ANY three questions ranging from a favorite movie, favorite food, or even a city anywhere in the world. Their answers, written in the bottom squares match PERFECTLY your predictions. Stunning mental magic!


Ayasdi has strong focus on building intelligent applications. It comes from our belief that, in the near future, every application will need to become intelligent or it will cease to exist.
As a result, we will, when we see repeatability and value, build those applications ourselves. In addition to our industry-specific and industry-agnostic application offerings, we also offer a Python SDK for developers who are comfortable programming against the underlying capabilities of the platform.
Over the years, we have been able to gain insights and learnings about how best to use our platform for a variety of real-world problems across finance, healthcare, telecommunications and more. Although our platform's SDK offers a full breadth of functionality to developers ranging from different machine learning capabilities to different options for generating topological models, we have been able to identify common patterns for data science problems that can be packaged in a manner that targets specific types of analyses.
In an effort to empower developers using our platform to the fullest extent, we have put energy into packaging this expertise into a format that can be consumed by our developers just as easily as they consume our Python SDK.
Therefore, we are excited to announce our newest offering to help meet these goals: the Ayasdi Cookbooks and Recipes.
The Ayasdi Cookbook consists of Python libraries that constitute various "Recipes" for solving various data science problems. The recipes encapsulate years of experience solving complex real-world problems for enterprises with Ayasdi's machine intelligence platform.
Experienced Python developers will recognize these recipes as a collection of Python classes and methods that offer intuitive input and output signatures that ultimately reduce the amount of code required to achieve commonly desired functionality from the platform. Engaging this functionality is as simple as importing the recipe into your Python code – just like you would with any other Python library or module.
We will continue to grow our recipes in the coming months but we wanted to start with our segmentation recipe, which ships with our 7.7 release.
The segmentation recipe enables users to generate segments given a data source or a topological network. The recipe documentation page includes a step by step sample tutorial (in the form of a Jupyter Notebook) that walks developers through a typical segmentation workflow, including the creation of a classification model to predict the segment of a new incoming data point.
Segmentation is a core data science pattern of the Ayasdi Machine Intelligence Platform. Many enterprise problems will rely on the segmentation of an underlying dataset based on features that can often be difficult to engineer or extract due to weak signals in the data. The Ayasdi platform, with its patented TDA-based capabilities, offers a segmentation approach that is unique in its ability to leverage topology to find these weak signals.
The recipe leverages platform capabilities to offer different segmentation strategies based on the the shape of the data. This approach is far superior to traditional methods of segmentation and clustering for reasons the are beyond the scope of this blog but well worth your time if interested.
While the user ultimately has control over which approach to take, there is documentation that outlines what approach is appropriate in what circumstance.
To put this in context let's consider two alternative segmentation strategies: community and connected component.
Community detection is a common approach in graph theory. Our specific implementation is based on the Louvain Modularity Algorithm. In a Community segmentation the internal connections of a segment in the topological network are high, whereas the external connections are low. This is useful for subdividing your topological model into groups of connected nodes.
An analog would be a rural town. There are a number of connections within the segment (surface streets) but few external connections (highways or major roads to other towns).
That manifests itself in a network as shown below. You have density in the center with lots of connections but as one moves out (to neighboring, smaller towns) one has fewer connections. While ultimately connected, there are distinct groups. This is valuable in understanding heterogeneous phenomena. This approach is more faithful to the data and produces better segmentations.
However, if the data exhibited the following shape one would need a different approach.
In this case, one would be more likely to apply a connected components strategy. The connected components strategy is most useful when the underlying topological network exhibits connected components (i.e. islands of interconnected nodes) that are separate from the others in the same network.
While these examples underscore the ability for even a novice user to find utility in this recipe, advanced users of Ayasdi Workbench could apply any of the approaches in the framework. Further IT can easily build them into intelligent applications.
For instance, AHCL blends the community and the ability to color by an outcome of interest. This enables the user to rapidly determine datapoints that carry a high degree of similarity. That is, they are close to each other and share the same color of the area of interest – say fraud or money-laundering or patients likely to escalate in cost.
ACHL Coloring – In this case incidence of fraud in online transactions.
One of the challenges that classically trained and citizen data scientists struggle with is repeatability and tribal knowledge. This can manifest itself in many ways across an organization. It can result in "drift" where a lightly understood technique is copied and applied to a different problem type. It can result in knowledge loss and lack of repeatability when you have employee attrition or the simple passing of time. You can have undocumented procedures for which the initial purpose is lost.
The development of well documented, and well understood recipes make the power of topological data analysis more approachable, consumable and repeatable. This is important for a classically trained data scientist who is building his/her understanding of TDA as well as citizen data scientist who seeks the power of machine learning, without the requirement to understand the math that underpins it. Finally, these recipes power and accelerate intelligent applications.
Ayasdi will continue to roll-out new recipes in the coming months as we fine-tune the various patterns that correspond to different business challenges and data science scenarios.
Stay tuned – this is just the beginning!


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New Zealand Stilt
Despite of 20 years of intensive protection, this species remains the rarest wading bird in the world. and the current population is estimated at 22 adult birds. There is a captive population of some 25 adults, annual release in the wild of captive-bred birds and predator control has probably prevented it from becoming extinct in the wild. During the breeding season it is restricted to the upper Waitaki Valley in the South Island. Small numbers overwinter in the North Island.
The New Zealand Stilt is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
New Zealand Stilt in Tasmania. Stilt 15:37.115 Clarence St., Bellerive, Tasm. 7018, Australia. HEWISH, M. 1989 Hooded Plovers, Pied Oystercatchers and a windy week- end at Discovery Bay, Victoria. Stilt 15:24-25. 74 Wellington St., Bacchus Marsh, Vic. 334, Australia. HOLNESS, P.R., WARREN, B.C.H., CREASE, Capt. AJ. & KERSLEY, R. 1989 The Stone Curlew on MoD Lands. The Adjutant 19:55-60. More
Black / New Zealand stilt {Himantopus novaezelandiae} ringed juvenile roosting in the rain, Lake Pukaki, South Island, New Zealand, January. Critically endangered 01236615 Black / New Zealand stilt {Himantopus novaezelandiae} ringed juvenile roosting in the rain, Lake Pukaki, South Island, New Zealand, January. Critically endangered Black / New Zealand stilt {Himantopus novaezelandiae} juvenile sheltering behind tussock, Lake Pukaki, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. January. More
stilt, the black-tailed stilt, the New Zealand stilt, the American avocet, the Andean avocet, the pied avocet and the red-necked avocet. Endangered in NH Endangered in N.H. Threatened in NH Threatened in N.H. introduced Introduced Endangered in the US Endangered in U.S. Threatened in the US Threatened in U.S. breeds in NH Breeds in N.H. More
Picture of Himantopus novaezelandiae above has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
Original source: Arthur Chapman
Author: Arthur Chapman
Permission: Some rights reserved
Order : Charadriiformes
Family : Recurvirostridae
Genus : Himantopus
Species : novaezelandiae
Authority : Gould, 1841
New Zealand Stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae)


XXXTentacion's first posthumous album, 'Skins' has been officially released following a leak earlier this week.
'Skins' is the third studio album from the controversial artist and features 10 songs, one of which – 'One Minute' – features Kanye West. West is the only guest appearance on the album.
'Skins' marks the first full-length record to be released since the Florida rapper's death in June. The 20-year-old was shot and killed while leaving a motorcycle dealership in Broward County.
XXXTentacion had been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-girlfriend last year. He pled not guilty to the charges but confessed to domestic abuse and other violent acts in a secret recording.
Earlier this week (December 4), it was confirmed that West had designed a three-piece merchandise collection in honour of the late rapper. It was reportedly unveiled at the official album listening party in Miami.
In October, XXXTentacion's mother collected a posthumous award on behalf of her son at the American Music Awards. His album '17' was named Favourite Album – Soul/R&B at the ceremony in Los Angeles.


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Home Office ordered to allow Australian couple to remain in Forres
31st July 2017 by insideMoray
A COUPLE WHO were facing being split up when the wife was refused permission to remain in Scotland have won a legal battle to stay.
Cheryl and John Cruikshank moved to Forres from their Australian home because social workers wanted to put them into separate care homes.
John, 82, had emigrated to Australia in 1964 and has been with Cheryl, now 66, for the past 20 years – with Cheryl acting as his sole carer in recent years. Australian authorities decided that both should go into care homes – but that they would have to be separated as they were unmarried, so they fled to Scotland.
However, they soon ran into problems with the Home Office in the UK with Cheryl being told that she would need to return to Australia and re-apply for entry after six months. Initially they got around UK immigration rules by flying to Cyprus and renewing Cheryl's visitor visa every six months.
When they married in Paphos in 2015, they mistakenly returned to the UK thinking that as a married couple – that was not the case however, and official in the UK refused her bid to remain on her compassionate grounds as the sole carer of her husband and long-term partner.
The case was highlighted in January when then MP for Moray, Angus Robertson, gave his support for their remaining in the UK, saying: "It seems to me that her application to reside in Scotland is perfectly reasonable. They married relatively recently but have been together for many years – this is good reason in itself to be able to live in Scotland.
"Over and above this Mr Cruickshank has suffered significant ill health and as a result Cheryl is his carer. This is a deserving case and I am urging the Home Office to take a sympathetic view."
Now an appeal tribunal has found in her favour – the judge saying that the couple had been caught "between a rock and a hard place".
Judge Kempton said: "There is also the issue of the loss of society for a couple in their twilight years who are devoted to one another and who rely upon one another for long shared experiences and love dating back many years.
"Would it not be cruel to separate such a couple who meant no harm in coming to the UK? I consider that the public interest does not require such draconian steps in this case."
Cheryl said: "It is such a relief that this is not hanging over our heads anymore."
However, the couple may yet face an appeal against the decision, with the Home Office able to appeal inside 14 days and saying that they are considering their options.
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Time to reflect
Dabbat al-Ardh (Dabba) refers to the computer and internet technology in the end times
Coelacanth is not a transitional form, it is a perfect deep-water fish
Mosaic evolution deceit
Archaeopteryx is a perfect flying bird
A response to Yigit Bulut's claim that 'you cannot explain what was before the big bang nor link that to the big bang'
Random mutations destroy life and cannot produce mutually compatible organs
Turkey is now a world star
In the morality of the Qur'an, there is no room for despair or distrust
Daily Comments
Describing creation through computers and the internet will be one of the portents of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
Believers are judged in an easy way, unbelievers in a hard way
Dabbat al-ardh described in the Qur'an and the hadith denote to computer and internet technology (Allah knows the truth)
It is impossible for doomsday to be 120 years after the sun has risen from the west
Morals of the Quran
deep faith
Ramadan, which comes to a close this week, has given Muslims in Bahrain a chance to reflect on God and beauty – which is everywhere one looks; on the face of a cheetah, the rippling leaves, a rose bud that gracefully comes out of earth without a blemish on it, in the spiral galaxies that display spectacular shows of colour and twirling patterns. Everywhere we look, God's beautiful art of creation is there.
And this beauty has so many layers, it goes so deep, it is not only simply about a pleasing appearance. For example, scientists discovered an astounding mathematical pattern that kept appearing in completely irrelevant things. From biological systems to inanimate objects, this mathematical formula, called the golden ratio – sometimes referred to as the Divine Proportion – follows a mathematical pattern (phi = 1.61803...) that makes everything more beautiful.
Astoundingly, it can be found in almost everywhere from our bodies, to a sunflower, to spiral galaxies to seashells. This formula is so intricate and so crucial to the form of beauty that many artists like Leonardo da Vinci frequently used it in their works.
The frequent appearance of the golden ratio in the universe clearly shows that God loves beauty and aesthetics.
Prophet Mohammed, the epitome of elegance and refinement, also loved beauty, and despite living in the harsh climate of the desert, built himself a rose garden. He not only loved roses but also made rose perfumes, which he used personally.
When our Prophet passed away, Islamic civilisation grew and flourished at an unprecedented rate, especially when Muslims abided by the Quran. In line with the exaltation of beauty seen in the Quran and the life of Prophet Mohammed, they built their own versions of beauty in everything they did. As a result, they were able to give the world some of the most beautiful architecture and art the world has ever seen.
The list of the spectacular Islamic works of art is a long one, but it could be said that the following few are good examples of the excellence in question.
The Taj Mahal: Built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628-1658) in Agra, India in memory of his late wife Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal is one of the most famous examples of Islamic architecture.
The Alhambra Palace: Located in modern day Granada, Spain, the palace belonged to the Muslim princes of the Nasrid Dynasty. Although parts of it were destroyed, a fortress, a residence and many gardens and pavilions still stand strong today.
The Dome of the Rock: The oldest extant Islamic building in the world, the Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine that houses the stone where Prophet Mohammed started his Mi'raj. It is reported that 100,000 gold dinars were melted down and cast on the exterior of the dome. When it was first built, it was said that it "had so strong a gleam, no eye could look straight at it". It is today one of the most well-known landmarks of the Islamic world.
As mentioned before, the list Islamic of architectural masterpieces is a long one. However, they all have one thing in common; a desire to show an appreciation for God's art of creation as much as a desire to build something beautiful that will befit the beauty of God's creation.
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http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/367240/GDN-Readers-View-Time-to-reflect
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Bigotry: The Dark Danger
http://darkdangerbigotry.com/
Islamic Questions
http://islamicquestions.net/
English Kuran
www.englishkuran.com/
Reply to Wikipedia
http://www.replytowikipedia.com/
Darwinists' Dilemma: The Soul
http://darwinistsdilemma.com/
Romanticism: a Weapon of Satan
http://romanticismaweaponofsatan.imanisiteler.com/
Anti Antichrist
www.antiantichrist.org
Hopefulness in the Quran
http://hopefulnessinthequran.imanisiteler.com
Death Resurrection Hell
http://deathresurrectionhell.imanisiteler.com
The False World
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Honorable Quran
http://honorablequran.imanisiteler.com/
Awaited Mahdi
http://www.awaitedmahdi.com/
Mahdi According to Four Sunni Schools
www.mahdiaccordingtofoursunnischools.com/
What is Destiny?
www.whatisdestiny.com
Truth of This World
www.truthofthisworld.com
www.perishednations.com
Welcoming a Second Golden Age: La Convivencia
When Muslims warp Islam
Another Ramadan Amidst Gratitude And Prayers
Exposing the secret dictatorship
Prayers In Ramadan For Muslims' Salvation
A spirit of interfaith solidarity
A month-long festival
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Niels Holck – Defence News of India
SOURCE: NEWS18
Twenty-five years ago, villagers in Bengal's Purulia district were woken up around midnight by the roar of an Antonov An-26 Latvian aircraft. The crew dropped a large consignment of arms including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than sixteen thousand rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Khatanga, Belamu and Maramu villages on December 17, 1995. Locals informed the police who confiscated the weapons.
The incident instantly drew international attention and multiple agencies started probing the origin of the arms and who they were meant for.
While the Purulia arms drop case remains shrouded in mystery, it has been alleged that the consignment was intended for someone linked with the socio-spiritual organisation Ananda Marga.
However, alleged key conspirator Kim Peter Davy alias Niels Holck claims that the mission was orchestrated by the-then Congress government at the Centre along with a few powerful local leaders to create a situation for President's Rule in West Bengal to stop the 'atrocities' of the Left Front government.
He also authored a book called 'De kalder mig terrorist' (They call me Terrorist), in which he reiterated this claim.
Speaking to News18.com from Denmark over the telephone, Holck said, "Some confidential negotiation is going on between the Indian government and the Danish government for my extradition. It is an unnerving situation but there is no concrete thing to hang your hat on. Exchange of letters is going on."
When asked what his next plan of defence was, he said, "Well…I am considering putting my legal team to handle this. The reason is…I have already won my extradition case in 2010 at the district court and in 2011 at the high court in Denmark. The court had already spoken regarding this that one cannot be tried twice for the same thing. This is normally not legal…right? If something comes up in the future, I will certainly look for it through the legal way. The case was closed in 2011 in Denmark and now the Indian government is trying to make a new case. India is trying…though it's not legal…Why…I don't know. Only, they can answer it."
Recalling the incident, he said, "The arms were brought from Bulgaria and it was only 50 handguns from my side. But when I entered the aircraft, I saw the consignment was huge. It was more in numbers that I was told. The rest was conspiracy. You need an end user's certificate to procure arms and in this case the end user's certificate was falsified in the name of a Bangladeshi Army General. I am still maintaining that the arms were procured to create a situation for President's Rule (by the-then central government) in Bengal against the Left Front government. The ATC radar at Dhanbad was switched off and the Indian government was aware of it to make a safe airway for our aircraft. The arms and ammunition were meant for the people trying to protect themselves against the atrocities from CPI(M). I was a monk for 14 years in Purulia at Ananda Marga and I know how the local villagers, tribal people were massacred by police in civil clothes."
When asked if anyone in Ananda Marga was involved, he said, "Not proved. I don't know…can't say, but there may be some 'juncture of interest' behind the whole case."
There are many theories behind the mysterious Purulia arms drop case. Some claim that the consignment was meant for Ananda Marga that wanted to overthrow the communist government in West Bengal, others say that it was intended for the Bangladesh Army.
According to details available, the Antonov An-26 aircraft had taken off from Gatwick Airport in London with four tons of weapons, undetected. It almost crash-landed at Isfahan in Iran, but went on to Karachi in Pakistan, where it remained on the ground for several days.
Then it came to Varanasi, where the crew refuelled the aircraft and then flew over to Purulia, where they air-dropped the consignment and left for Phuket in Thailand. The plane's return route too was via India and after a few days when it entered the Indian airspace, the aircraft was forced to land in Mumbai by the Indian Air Force.
British citizen and ex Special Air Service operative-turned-mercenary Peter Bleach and five other Latvian crew members were arrested, but Holck managed to escape from the Mumbai's runway. All those caught were sentenced to life imprisonment, but they were released in 2004, allegedly under pressure from the Russian and British governments.
Later, Holck was traced to Denmark and since then Indian agencies have been trying to get him back to India for further probe.
On April 9, 2010, the Danish police arrested him in order to start an extradition trial but his extradition never happened as a Danish court turned down the request due to lack of justification.
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Q: Why is an egg-info file created when I'm using distutils? Below is my setup.py. I don't use anything from setuptools in my code and my project has no external dependencies
#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup

setup(name='dots',
        ...
        packages=['dots','dots.configs','dots.management','dots.utils','dots.test'],
        scripts=['dots/dots.py']
        )

When I run python setup.py install, I get the following
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/bin/dots.py to 755
running install_egg_info                                                                                <- why?
Removing /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots-0.1-py2.7.egg-info
Writing /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots-0.1-py2.7.egg-info
(p-dots)Kevins-MacBook-Pro-2% python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/bin/dots.py to 755
running install_egg_info
Removing /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots-0.1-py2.7.egg-info
Writing /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots-0.1-py2.7.egg-info

I notice that an .egg-info file is installed
ls -dl /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots*
drwxr-xr-x  10 kevinlin  staff  340 May  4 11:36 /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots
-rw-r--r--   1 kevinlin  staff  205 May  4 11:36 /Users/kevinlin/.virtualenvs/p-dots/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dots-0.1-py2.7.egg-info

Why?

A: There was discussion about adding setuptools to the stdlib for Python 2.5, and then about adding only pkg_resource (one part of setuptools).  Various reasons made that not happen.  The core devs recognized that setuptools was an important third-party tool, and accepted a change to make projects installed with a pure-distutils setup.py write this egg-info file, to enable setuptools and tools built on top of it to know that these projects are already installed.
Changeset: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/93344da76acd
Ticket: http://bugs.python.org/issue1459476
(I haven't checked the dates of the 2.5 discussions about setuptools, so my first sentences may be wrong.  The rationale is still valid, see the ticket.)


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Q: Tensorflow stops training and hanged on GPU randomly When I run the following code on GPU, it trains well for some epoches and then just hangs.
While hanged processes are still alive but the GPU usages become 0%.
In the below code I am using Dataset API from tf.contrib.data.Dataset. But I also tried using placeholder and feed dictionary approach which hangs as well on random epoch during training.
I am struggling with the problem for last 2-3 weeks and cannot find a way out.
I am running the code on a remote GPU cluster. Here are some information about cluster node,
Using tensorflow gpu version 1.4

NodeName=node050 Arch=x86_64 CoresPerSocket=1    CPUAlloc=0
  CPUErr=0 CPUTot=24 CPULoad=12.03 Features=Proc24,GPU4    Gres=gpu:4
  NodeAddr=node050 NodeHostName=node050 Version=15.08    OS=Linux
  RealMemory=129088 AllocMem=0 FreeMem=125664 Sockets=24 Boards=1
  State=IDLE ThreadsPerCore=1 TmpDisk=0 Weight=1 Owner=N/A
  BootTime=2017-11-07T08:20:00 SlurmdStartTime=2017-11-07T08:24:06
  CapWatts=n/a    CurrentWatts=0 LowestJoules=0 ConsumedJoules=0
  ExtSensorsJoules=n/s ExtSensorsWatts=0 ExtSensorsTemp=n/s

CODE
dat_split = np.load('data/dat_split2.npy')
X_train = dat_split[0].astype(np.float32)
X_test = dat_split[1].astype(np.float32)
y_train = dat_split[2].astype(np.int32)
y_test = dat_split[3].astype(np.int32)

num_epochs = 100

train_data_len = X_train.shape[0]
test_data_len = X_test.shape[0]
num_joints = len(considered_joints)
num_classes = len(classes)

############ taking batch_size even data##########
even_train_len = (train_data_len//batch_size)*batch_size
even_test_len = (test_data_len//batch_size)*batch_size

X_train = X_train[:even_train_len]
X_test = X_test[:even_test_len]
y_train = y_train[:even_train_len]
y_test = y_test[:even_test_len]

train_dat = Dataset.from_tensor_slices((X_train, y_train))
train_dat = train_dat.batch(batch_size)

test_dat  = Dataset.from_tensor_slices((X_test, y_test))
test_dat = test_dat.batch(batch_size)

iterator = Iterator.from_structure(train_dat.output_types, train_dat.output_shapes)

trainig_iterator_init = iterator.make_initializer(train_dat)
test_iterator_init = iterator.make_initializer(test_dat)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    global_cell = GlobalLSTM(num_units=num_units_each_cell, num_joints=num_joints)   #GlobalLSTM is a subtype of RNNCell
    next_element = iterator.get_next()
    X_loaded2, Y_loaded = next_element
    X_loaded = tf.where(tf.is_nan(X_loaded2), tf.zeros_like(X_loaded2), X_loaded2)

    init_state = global_cell.zero_state((batch_size), tf.float32)
    rnn_ops, rnn_state = tf.nn.dynamic_rnn(global_cell, X_loaded, dtype=tf.float32)

    with tf.variable_scope('softmax__'):
        W = tf.get_variable('W', [(num_joints)*num_units_each_cell, num_classes], initializer=tf.truncated_normal_initializer(0.0, 1.0))
        b = tf.get_variable('b', [num_classes], initializer=tf.truncated_normal_initializer(0.0, 1.0))

    final_logits = tf.matmul(rnn_state[1], W) + b       # taking h state of rnn
    with tf.name_scope("loss_comp"):
        total_loss = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=final_logits, labels=tf.one_hot(Y_loaded, num_classes)))
    with tf.name_scope("train_step"):
        train_step = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate).minimize(total_loss)

    with tf.name_scope("pred_accu"):
        predictions = tf.nn.softmax(final_logits)
        pred2 = tf.reshape(tf.argmax(predictions, 1), [-1, 1])
        correct_pred = tf.equal(pred2, tf.cast(Y_loaded, tf.int64))
        accuracy_ = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_pred, tf.float32))

    with tf.Session() as sess:
        sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())

        tic = time.clock()
        for step in range(num_epochs):
            sess.run(trainig_iterator_init)
            batch_cnt = train_data_len//batch_size
            epch_loss = 0.0
            epch_acc = 0.0
            for bt in range(batch_cnt):
                _, loss_, acc = sess.run([train_step, total_loss, accuracy_])
                epch_loss += loss_
                epch_acc += acc
            print ('loss after epoch, ', step,': ', epch_loss/batch_cnt, ' ## accuracy : ', epch_acc/batch_cnt)

        print ("optimization finished, time required: ", time.clock()-tic)

        #############test accuracy##############
        batch_cnt = test_data_len//batch_size
        sess.run(test_iterator_init)
        print ('testing accuracy on test data : batch number', batch_cnt)
        epch_acc = 0.0
        for bt in range(batch_cnt):
            acc = sess.run(accuracy_)
            epch_acc += acc
        print ('testing accuracy : ', epch_acc/batch_cnt)

Here are some screen shot of different hangs,
Hanged on an epoch

GPU usage that time

GPU usage while running (not hanged)

Hanged on another eopch

This type of random hanging behavior keeps repeating on each run.
Each time it hangs on a random epoch. That's why I cannot figure out what is going wrong.
By looking at code or other set up can anybody please give me any idea about what is going wrong or how can I debug this out? Thanks

A: I had the same issue. One CPU core had a workload of 100% while the GPU was hanging. I thought this was an issue of the lock and checked the code of tensorflow gpu_event_mgr.cc.
"queue_empty" wasn't protected by mutex_lock, so the CPU would hang and couldn't send data to the GPU.
My temporary solution is setting the parameter
gpu_options.polling_inactive_delay_msecs = 10 (default value is 1)
or to a bigger number in the session's ConfigProto. This will make the CPU wait longer when the queue was empty and fill more data, which will be sent to the GPU. It will prevent the dead lock. This solution just reduces the probability of a hanging GPU and it isn't a final solution. However, it allowed my deep neural network training to finished most of the time.

A: I resolved a similar issue as follows:
I ran my code on a virtual device with GTX 1080 Ti GPU, Python 3.7 and the latest version of the tensorflow-gpu 2.1. I had the same issue for a week. None of the solutions and workarounds seemed to work for me.
I downgraded my tensorflow-gpu. I also had to downgrade my Python since tensorflow-gpu 1.* versions do not work on Python 3.7.

*

*Python from 3.7 to 3.6

*Tensorflow-gpu from 2.1 to 1.12
Of course, I had to change some parts of my code to be compatible with the older version of tensorflow-gpu but it got rid of the GPU hung issue.

A: It is always necessary to have same amount or higher of RAM memory to CUDA memory.

*

*Try checking out num_workers

A: The answer of Halo9Pan was great and set me on the right course. I added the code
configproto = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
configproto.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
configproto.gpu_options.polling_inactive_delay_msecs = 10
sess = tf.compat.v1.Session(config=configproto)
tf.compat.v1.keras.backend.set_session(sess)

to the beginning of my network as described in this question. That solved the issue for me.


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While most machines are built to create, this machine, "Vicious Cycle," will in time, put an end to itself. Inspired by "Machine with Concrete," an Exploratorium art installation by Arthur Ganson, this collaboration between Autodesk and the Exploratorium makes visible the invisible; in this case, using interconnected gears to illustrate the unseen but powerful presence of force and time. "Vicious Cycle" is a cascade of gears arranged in a near full circle. The gearing dramatically slows the rapidly spinning motor, making about 30 revolutions per second, such that the cascade's final gear takes about 1.3 years to make a single rotation. The gears' torque — the amount of force that the rotating shaft can apply — increases in an inverse ratio to the speed.
In other words, the incredibly slow final gear provides enough theoretical torque to lift the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty — together! This final gear is attached to a vise that slowly crushes a glass tube that will eventually fracture from the stress, dropping the motor, and halting the gears. The entire cycle takes about a year, at which time it will be reset for another 12-month run. Talk about self-destructive behavior. Can't wait a full year? With the interactive 3D visualization, you can fast forward through the accumulating stresses in the components to witness the simulated moment of destruction.
The exhibit team used Autodesk Inventor, tools in the Exploratorium's exhibit workshop, and an OMAX waterjet cutter and Objet 3D printers at the Autodesk Pier 9 Technology Center to bring the exhibit to life. The exhibit's stress levels were analyzed with Simulation Mechanical (now Autodesk Nastran In-CAD), and the assembly was then rendered and animated in Autodesk 3ds Max.
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st johns neighborhood
Another person hit and killed while crossing North Fessenden
by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on April 11th, 2019 at 11:28 am
Another person has been killed by a driver while trying to walk across North Fessenden Street.
Commissioner Eudaly expedited installation of new speed limit signs last month.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
According to the Portland Police Bureau a woman was hit while crossing near North Polk Street at around 10:30 pm last night. The driver of a red sedan sped away and is still on the loose.
This brings the toll to two deaths and two serious injuries in the past 15 months.
Just over one month ago we reported that Fessenden was in crisis. Five days later, on March 1st, Portland Bureau of Transportation Commissioner Chloe Eudaly stepped in. "This latest tragedy has shaken the community," she wrote on Facebook, "and I understand why."
Eudaly took action by expediting a change to the speed limit from 35 mph to 25 mph. She had city crews install the signs immediately. Speed reader boards have also popped up on the street.
But it's clearly not enough.
PBOT knows this. They've been harangued by local residents and activists like Donna Cohen, leader of the Citizens for a Safe and Attractive Fessenden/St Louis/Lombard Facebook page.
Cohen and others have clamored for long-promised safety upgrades like median islands, flashing beacons, curbs extensions, a new lane configuration, and more. PBOT's St. Johns Truck Strategy Phase 2 project will deliver these upgrades; but it has taken what feels like an eternity to materialize. The plan itself was adopted by council in 2001. The grant to build Phase 2 was accepted in 2010 2013 and engineering and design recommendations were completed in 2013.
PBOT finally received FHWA approval to proceed with the $5 million project in October of last year and construction is finally underway.
From, St. Johns Transportation Concept Development Project, 2013 prepared by T-Y-Lin International for PBOT. North Polk is on the left.
For Cohen and other residents, it didn't come soon enough. On her group's Facebook page today, Cohen pointed out that PBOT's plans call for a new median island and crossing on N Tioga Street — just one block from where the woman was killed last night (see graphic above). "If PBOT had not dragged their feet on this project this is what would be at Tioga now – a 16′-wide median island. You cannot go nearly as fast around a 16′ median island as on a narrow island or a straight-away."
This is the third traffic fatality in Portland in less than 24 hours and the sixth in the past four days. So far this year 14 people have died on our roads, eight of them were walking.
UPDATE, 5:01 pm:
Family identifies 82yo Sandy Bosch as woman killed in hit & run Wednesday night. It happened at North Fessenden & Polk. Sandy was a mother & grandmother. The suspect vehicle is a red sedan & it should have damage. pic.twitter.com/pTyTaPPz3q
— Mike Benner (@MikeBennerKGW) April 11, 2019
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PBOT requests $650,000 to kickstart a safer N Columbia Blvd in St. Johns
by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on February 22nd, 2018 at 1:12 pm
That's a school on the left, a highway in the middle, and three residential streets coming in from the sides. It's so frustrating that people who live here are being held hostage by this dangerous road. It needs to be fixed ASAP.
Like so many intersections throughout our city, the crossing of North Columbia Boulevard near George Middle School in the St. Johns neighborhood is a ticking time bomb. It's where teenager Bradley Fortner was struck and nearly killed by a driver while walking to school in 2016, and it's the intersection that spurred Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Tina Kotek to host a town hall three months ago.[Read more…]
In two separate events, north Portlanders will seek attention for dangerous streets
by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on October 19th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Flyer for tomorrow's rally.
North Portlanders are tired of waiting for the City or advocacy groups to save them from the deadly streets in their front yards. They're taking matters into their own hands by elevating voices of vulnerable road users and demanding attention for their concerns.
Two events in the coming week — one from the Arbor Lodge and Overlook neighborhood associations and one from the St. Johns Neighborhood Association — will focus on dangerous streets where motor vehicle users cause daily environmental, safety and public health problems.
This Friday (10/20) a group of St. Johns residents calling themselves Citizens for a Safe and Attractive Fessenden/St Louis will hold a rally to demand that the Portland Bureau of Transportation follow through with promises. Fessenden/St.Louis is a neighborhood collector street between Columbia Boulevard (to the north) and Lombard (to the south). Residents PBOT to fully implement the St. Johns Truck Strategy Phase II project that was approved after a 17 month public process in 2013 (as part of the St. Johns Truck Strategy adopted by City Council in 2001).
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