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Jim Riggleman Ejected After First At-Bat Of Nationals Vs. Orioles Game
By Andrew Kinback May 22, 2011, 2:16pm EDT
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Sunday afternoon's game between the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles couldn't have started out more bizarrely. The first batter of the game was center fielder Roger Bernadina, who laid down a bunt on Orioles pitcher Chris Tillman and made it to first base in time. But he was ultimately called out, which eventually led to Jim Riggleman getting ejected.
Yup, ejected. Riggleman exited the dugout in a fury, and it was not long before the pointing, fingering and gesturing Riggleman was ejected by umpire Todd Tichenor. This happened two pitches into the game, which has to be a record.
It seems that Bernadina was called out for bunting the ball out of the batter's box. It was a highly unfortunate play, as the next batter, shortstop Ian Desmond, hit a double that probably would have scored Bernadina. Instead Tillman was able to get out of the first-inning without any damage.
The Nationals are now down one manager and minus a run in Baltimore. Call it "Nationals Luck."
(Screenshots via Grant Brisbee of Baseball Nation)
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A: you can set value from plist to label in your tableview:
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A: Take custom class for UITableViewCell and design as per your requirement. Then take data from plist file. Assign data to CustomTableViewCell in CellForRowAtIndexPath method.

A: First you need to get the path of your plist file from NSBundle. Then store the elements in an array and populate the label with the elements of array at indexpath.row for key "name". Hope this helps.
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"Points" = verifiable facts; rational arguments; grounded on reality, intelligent, informed, unbiased, the thoughts of someone who is seeking truth.
Example: "America is evil." This is not a point. It is an assertion. It is also a meaningless assertion devoid of facts or rational argument.
"America is not a fair broker in the Middle East." This is a starting point but it also requires supporting data. Perhaps this is a true statement but it needs to be fleshed out with facts and conclusions rooted in reality and common sense.
Now why don't you try again and try to form your thoughts in such a way I can respond to you? I won't dismiss your argument out of hand. But I want to see an intelligent argument to respond to.
I've been making my points all through this thread, but you've been ignoring them. Dolfin has answered them, but you apparently lack the intellectual capacity for reasoned debate.
Sorry, AJ. That was way over the top. Please forgive this former soldier. I, also want peace. The options seem limited, however, to appeasement or at least the tangible threat of war.
I may be naive, but nobody can convince me the Iraqi people aren't sick to death of this guy.
If I am right, there will be little bloodshed. What rational human being would die to support Saddam's regime? Especially, with autonomy guaranteed in the aftermath.
All of this would just be a pipe dream, but...There is absolutely nothing we can do to make the world hate us more. They are killing us now on our own soil. We are The Great Satan. Anything we do must be a trick. Anything we say must be a lie, and all our motives must be ulterior.
The world is upside down; Ghaddafi chairs the Commision on Human Rights, British and Japanese students call us imperialists, the French say it's about oil when they're the ones with the billion dollar contracts. The Germans want peace.
Shouldn't we just kick this guy's ***, if for no other reason than to stop the dog and pony show?
We're sorry...for everything. We're going home now, never to leave our shores again. Last one standing gets the oil.
Maybe if we reinstalled the Taliban as rulers of Afghanistan, the world would say, "You know, they've changed, they're not so bad after all."
What a good PR move it would be to assist in the reunification of Korea...by leaving. They'd like us then, right?
We could unliberate France...you know, give it back to the Germans. Then the French would be our friends again, and the trains would run on time.
We could unfree Nelson Mandela, then he'd be talking about how smart we are, and how we "think right".
As Martin Short would say, "Is it me, I mean us?...It's them, right?"
So that is your reason to kill millions of them?
I see it now, american show the world what it is to be free of worries of life.
AJ: I actually waded through your silly original post to see if there was anything worth responding to. Couldn't find anything. You throw in a few ten dollar words to impress, make a lot of unfounded assertions but when your post is boiled down to its essential elements it says this. America is bad. We can't prove that Osama is dead, therefore he must be alive. Don't kill Iraqi children. And then you quote a bunch of famous America bashers and their predictable attacks. blah, blah, blah.
You're not terribly bright. You aren't particularly informed. You certainly don't rely on facts. You let others do your thinking and then you regurgitate it here to impress the equally intellectually challenged choir of blame America firsters. You'll be in good company.
The difference between you and Imperialist Swill is bewilderingly complete. These are all cogent arguments against my position. These are arguments I can at least digest and think about.
I understand your frustration, and whenever I see arguments like that I think of that Canadian guy, what's his name, Gordon Sinclair maybe? I can't remember, but he did a nice song about the good old US of A.
I am sure you are right about the Iraqi people being desperate to get rid of Saddam. If he steps outside while the missiles are falling he will be strung up like Cousescu of Romania was. Like Mussolini was. Like Hitler should have been.
The problem we face in the world today is that the rest of the world is frightened of us, and envious of our power and economic might. I believe this means we need to rethink how we approach the world. Becoming MORE belligerent is not the answer. Because we are the last superpower, we need to take a more maternal approach to the world's problems. Note I say Maternal, not Paternal.
It's honestly too late now to turn back. We pretty much have cornered ourselves into attacking Iraq, no matter what some of us may feel about it. Backing down now will only strengthen Osama bin Laden's hand.
I think the point everyone is missing is that as the world's superpower, we need to rethink foreign policy on a massive scale. You're right that people don't appreciate us, and if we dramatically increase our foreign aid that won't change. But as the world's most powerful nation we have to simply shrug it off and carry on. A sane future for the world requires that its one superpower be a benevolent force.
Rather than arm the world, we need to feed it. it's really that simple for me. We should maintain a big military budget, continue weapons programs, because it's a dangerous world full of people who hate us. But we need to re-examine the way we influence events. We won't win everyone over, but we'll win some over. And I believe the world would be a much better place.
Imperialist Swill: It's probably the ten dollar words that threw you off. When you go get an education, come back, and we'll talk.
Gosh, d0lfins0ng, I'm beginning to think you think I don't read the news.
You know the difference between someone who leans left who falls over and someone who leans right? The person who leans right and falls over leaves collateral damage, and the person who leans left leaves seeds of growth.
And I'm waiting patiently for this evidence to be presented to the UN. I didn't see this in Powell's presentation. Did I miss it?
Regardless, I have to leave this with a question. Are you in favor of a unilateral strike by the US against Iraq? Or are you in favor of getting UN approval?
Dolfinsong, I used to live in Virginia and remember the bumper stickers, 'Virginia is for lovers'.
It is obvious to any informed and rational person that we are at war already. It is also obvious that the goal of our enemies is the destruction of Israel and the United States.
The voices of Iraqi defectors are ignored. It is estimated that Saddam has killed millions. This, of course, is inconvenient to the position taken by many here. The voice of Colin Powell who, very recently advocated the creation of a Palestinian State, is drowned out by a cacaphony of jeers from the likes of Syria, whose minister openly advocated the disarmament, hence destruction of Israel.
We are in a self preservation mode. What is the agenda of Saddam Hussein? What is the agenda of Al Quaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas...etc.?
AJ, your bleating about the "RepubliKlans" is pathetic and reveals your lack of a cogent argument, as well as your conspicuous lack of a proposed solution.
I look forward to more dolphin songs.
AJ, I posted my last one while you were posting to me. I welcome your dissent, especially when stated eloquently, without the jingoism; eg RepubliKlans. Your last post I very much enjoyed. I hope we can have fierce debate without becoming enemies.
Hi Dolfinsong. I was born in DC, lived in Arlington until I was 2. By matrilieal kinship reckoning, I am a Texan, and have lived here most of my life. Later, I spent over 4 years in and around Charlottesville, in Albemarle County. For most of that time I lived in an old frame house at Lost Valley Farm, 190 acres of forest, save 7 acres of hay for Commander Dent's (my landlord)thoroughbreds. Pigeontop Mountain was in my backyard, with George Washiington National Forest bordering the property line. Commander Dent lived at Polaris Farm and couldn't imagine why anyone would want to live in that old house so he rented it to me for $125 a month. If it was too cold to bathe in the Mormon's River, (with Dr. Bronner's) I had to drive to Charlottesville to the Gym at UVA for a shower, about 22 miles. The house had wood stoves only, for heat. My memories of that place are fond.
You will certainly enjoy 'Startide Rising'. It is the middle book of a trilogy called, 'The Uplift Wars'. But not to worry, I read it first, too. Each book stands alone, and 'Startide Rising' is undoubtedly the best.
You will now learn dolphin trinary, a musical language of song and verse.
Nah, you seem cool. A RepubliKlan is basically, to me, a conservative racist, btw, not a typical Republican. I have a lot of Republican friends. We are absolutely vicious with each other, but we have fun. Imprerialist Swine seems like a reactionary to me, so he gets treated as such.
People who know me know that I listen to well-formed debate. I'm not at all convinced we should be attacking Saddam, but I do understand the sentiment for creating consensus within the UN that we do so. And I reserve the right to change my mind when the evidence becomes more convincing. God knows, I think Saddam should go. I'd be all in favor of some covert operation.
And I don't like George Bush -- I don't trust him, and I think he's destroying our economy. However, when push comes to shove, when and if our country comes under attack, I stand with him because he's our prez. I don't have to like him to do that.
FOX News ran a story shortly after 9-11 in which a US Government official admitted that there is evidence linking 9-11 to someone other than Arab Muslims, but that the US Government has classified this evidence.
Guess thats that, osama is now classifed.
Hi, AJ. I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I am glad that we have Bush instead of Gore, however. The only one who really scares me is Ashcroft, who is busy prosecuting growers of medicinal marijuana when he should be tracking down terrorists.
Probably the fundamental difference between our positions is that I believe we already are at war.
The world is not used to the straight talk of Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, Blair and Straw. The hue and cry aginst unilateral action, and for consensus is lead by nations with vested interests, and or domestic political considerations, and is anything but altruistic. As soon as the French are sure that their oil contracts are in danger of becoming null and void, they will quit acting unilaterally.
The Germans must keep their promises of pacifism to the German people. This is as it should be. There is right now, a German Chemical unit consisting of 59 soldiers on the ground in Kuwaiit. This kind of support will, I believe, be consistent with the wishes of the German people, while showing solidarity with the Free World.
Ultimately, I believe the Chinese and the Russians will have to lead the way in disarming North Korea. That is like a hornet's nest on their back porch. They will continue to bellow until someone smacks then in the mouth.
No, I know we're at war with Al Queda. I have serious doubts of a genuine Al-Queda-Iraq connection. It's much more likely that whatever elements of Al Queda are in Iraq were planted there by bin Laden to deflect attention towards Iraq and precipitate a larger war.
bin Laden attempted to get Pakistan and India into a war by sending his proxies in to bomb the Indian parliament. He failed, but it looks like we're walking right into this trap. He's a brilliant enemy, and he is, in my mind the enemy. Saddam has been neutralized. We need to finish off Al Queda, but doing so will not have the glamour of the newest cruise missile technology.
Whatever happened to the early pronouncements that this would be an unglamourous war? A war that would mean we would have to drop small numbers of troops into numerous coutnries and take out Al Queda piece by piece?
I love fireworks as much as the next guy. Watching the skies of Bagdhad fill with the arcs of cruise missiles on CNN is captivating. But since it's TV, it's easy to miss how ugly and evil war is.
Call this a strategic dispute if it makes it more palatable. I don't think it's good strategy to engage in a blitzkrieg against Iraq. I think we need to go back to the intent we had right after 9-11, and hunt Al Queda down all over the world. And we need to combine that with an effort at reaching the hearts and minds of the Arab people, and help nurture struggling economies. That will help remove some of the harbors of animiosity that exist in every Arab nation. And it is a policy that all moderate Arabs would embrace and understand.
AJ dearest, you are waving a political banner. I am just showing you how ridiculous this all sounds.
I am no more a Republican than a Democrat, and you know it.
Still, you choose to ignore ol' Slick Willie's administration is responsible for creative bookkeeping in many areas of the government, including illegal contributions to the Demonic party. Can you possibly forget all those last minute pardons? How many "gates" involved the Clintons? Who cannot practice law in the Supreme Court, hmmmmmmmm? What did Clinton do to screw Africa, hmmmmm? Short-term memory, Dear?
The "gates" were Republican concoctions that, after exhaustive investigation and millions of dollars, were incconclusive to the point of what should have been embarrassment. It amounted to a Republican conspiracy to dethrone a legitmately elected president. This is typical of Republicans, and it's why they are so despised in some circles. Not the every day man on the street Republican, who is typically simply blind to the shenanigans of the politicians themselves, but rather, I'm talking here about Republican political leaders.
We begin with the Kennedy assasination, for which there is strong evidence for a conspiracy among the Republican elite of the time. Unproven, of course, but the evidence is there.
Jimmy Carter was elected and somehow managed to remain in power without Republican intervention, probably because, as lovable as he may be, he was a pretty bad president overall, and the Republicans knew his administration wouldn't last.
WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- The final Whitewater report was released by the independent counsel's office Wednesday, ending an 8-year investigation whose many phases cost the taxpayer a total of $70 million.
Final verdict: No crimes committed by President Clinton or Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
I particularly liked the "ending an 8-year investigation whose many phases cost the taxpayer a total of $70 million" part of this story.
And, please, don't throw the Monical Lewinsky thing at me. The only people who should judge other people for sexual conduct are people who can look themselves in the mirror and say they've never done the same thing. And even then, personal affairs should not really be part of our evaluation of a nation's leaders. If it was, many other presidents, from Jefferson (who seemed to have an affinity for slave girls) on down would have been ousted.
If Clinton had simply not lied about it while staring America in the face, people would have let the matter drop. I was as disappointed in him as others, and lost a lot of respect for him because of it. But I also understand that it may have been the result of being hounded for five years by Republicans who wouldn't, for one moment, just accept the fact that he was our elected president. If I constantly had dogs nipping at my heels, who knows how I would have reacted.
But we digress. The thread of this is: Anybody seen bin Laden? The subtitle, if there was one (and I should know since I started this thread) should be: Why is George Bush diverting America's attention away from the fact that bin Laden is still on the loose? Why are we not extracting El Queda cells from other parts of the world? Indonesia, Yemen, maybe even North Korea?
In fact, I believe it is fair to even dare ask, "Why are we losing this war, and what must we do to turn the tide back in our favor?"
[B]"...please, don't throw the Monical Lewinsky thing at me. "
Did I? When we liberate the Iraqi people, all the evidence you were so insistent upon having before we enter Iraq will be revealed. Do recall, an expert card player does not tip his/her hand regardless of the outcry. I am sure we shall be uncovering massive graves, along with Saddam's A-Q connections, the unfortunates who were tortured, the stockpiles of WMD, and a few other things of which the public was unaware. At such point, you can expect to hear the voices of the Iraqi people speak freely about Saddam's defunct regime. You will also witness a Democratic Iraqi party take over. That is if they can get Turkey off their back. All these things shall be revealed while you lick the egg off your hubris Democratic party face.


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The Renault-Nissan Alliance will open a research office later this month in the heart of Silicon Valley. The facility will be located directly across from the Google campus and minutes from leading hardware and software companies in Mountain View, Calif.
The Alliance says the facility will allow the automotive group to capitalize on the region's world-class engineering talent. In addition, it will be able to stay ahead of trends that are reshaping the way people interact with their cars.
"The Alliance is at the vanguard of the auto industry's shift to sustainable transportation," says Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. "Having a greater footprint in one of the world's headquarters for clean tech research will extend our lead further."
Ghosn is giving a talk at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) today, June 14, 2011. Ghosn's "Clean Cars" presentation at Stanford will focus on how and why zero-emission technologies is leading to unprecedented opportunities in the auto industry and economy.
The new office will build staff organically to focus on specific projects and business developments as they emerge. Small, highly efficient teams will initially work on vehicle IT development, advanced engineering research and technology recruitment.
Created in 1999, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is a partnership between two of the largest automakers in Europe and Japan. Renault and Nissan, which together employ more than 350,000 workers, sold 7.2 million cars in 2010 – about one in 10 cars worldwide. Paris-based Renault and Yokohama-based Nissan collaborate through joint purchasing, platform sharing and cross-shareholding. They maintain separate brands and cultural identities.
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What We Stand To Lose As Australia's Tour Of South Africa Stands Canceled!
Cricket excites like no other sport. And especially when two teams are involved with one another bringing to the fore the mouthwatering prospect of seeing unadulterated and passionate cricket like no other force in the world, then things take an even more exciting turn.
For decades now, Australia and South Africa happen to be two flourishing sides, which have entertained and inspired awe. The yesteryears saw the likes of Barry Richards and Allan Border, Ian Chappell and Andrew Hudson emerge as the stand out heroes from the respective sides. They would later pave way for timeless heroes on either sides with the likes of Allan Donald, Jaques Kallis, and Shaun Pollock contesting fire to fire as they'd tackle a marauding force of Aussie cricketers such as the Waugh brothers, Shane Warne, and Glenn McGrath (to quote just some of the greats). Likewise, a lot was expected to from audacious battles between the likes of Rabada and Smith, Labuschagne and Maharaj, Faf and Starc in what was to have been Australia's tour of South Africa 2021. Alas, that shall not go ahead.
You read that right unfortunately and there's nothing that may anytime soon reverse the fate of the originally planned Australia's tour of South Africa!
While the COVID 19 fears in the Rainbow nation are suspected to have played the spoilsport in the forthcoming Australia's tour of South Africa 2021, it is believed that no major reshuffle can be expected anytime soon to bring to loggerheads to giants of world cricket.
On the one hand, South Africa would loved to have taken on the Aussie challenge donning the whites, having bounced back strongly (in their last series) post their T20 series loss with a convincing ODI win, Australia, would certainly have loved to test the Protea fire!
Interestingly, here's what the recent news reports are saying in the context of the series that now stands cancelled:
Australia pulled out of their Test cricket tour to South Africa Tuesday citing an "unacceptable" risk to players with the coronavirus rampant in the country. Coach Justin Langer's men were due to play three Tests against the Proteas, and Australia named their squad last week with the intent to fly out this month. But the situation became untenable with the outbreak in South Africa accelerated by a new variant said to be more contagious than earlier strains of the virus.
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The series between the two forces, one being looked forward to with bated breath would have given crowds the massive opportunity to witness the continuity of Test cricket in South Africa, after the home team battered the visiting Sri Lankans recently, an event during which former captain Faf du Plessis outperformed his caustic critics to a career-best 199.
It's worthwhile to note that the last that the two forces locked horns in Madiba-land was in 2018 when South Africa registered a brilliant series win over a Smith-led side that went on to register massive losses, such as the 322-run defeat at the Third Test, Capetown (where Elgar registered a brilliant 141 and Morkel's fiery fifer stole the show).
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Sadly, none of that verve of fascianting cricket would be on offer at least for some time as the (forthcoming) Qantas tour of South Africa stands delayed indefinitely.
When might cricketers return to the field wearing whites once again here in South Africa- is something all would love to know.


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This is the third time I've started this blog. I'm pretty sure somewhere in the archives is a post about how the key to success is to "never stop starting", so here I am, back again.
Tyler and I have decided to undertake the I Quit Sugar 8-week detox program to see if we can reset our systems and get back to a healthy relationship with food. You see, 10 months ago we had a baby, and pregnancy and parenthood really set us back a bit. While I have technically lost all of my pregnancy weight, my body does not look the same, nor does it feel the same. Sleep deprivation and lack of exercise are big parts of this, but poor eating habits aren't helping. We are both feeling sluggish and, well, round.
Tyler will tell me that it's important to give myself credit for the good things because we have made some positive strides in life. I got the "Oh She Glows" cookbook for Christmas and we've been loving the recipes in there. We've done good things, but our overall relationship with food isn't great still, and now we have a more pressing motivation: we have to teach another human how to eat.
There's nothing like realizing that you are responsible for the health and well-being of another person to make you take a hard look at your life. And since we've had a few months of her sleeping through the night, I can start to do just that.
I'm back to blogging. My hope is to write regularly, and to use the blog as a tool to get through this next detox and life shift, and with any luck, the third time will be the one that sticks.
All encouragement and tips welcome.


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She had a grudge against vigilantes.


Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you brand new information regarding Persona 4 Arena Ultimax! In this article I will be talking about "The Sadastic Stud-Keeping Secretary", Magaret! Magaret will appear as DLC along with characters Marie and Kohru Adachi. I have some more information on Margaret, such as her release date and screenshots of her on which you can find inside.
Also, I have some trailers to show off for characters Chie Satonaka, Ken Amada & Koromaru, and Labrys. These are the typical character trailers just like the others that are featured.
Margaret, the Empress Arcana and Velvet Room attendant from Persona 4 is confirmed as a DLC character for the Americas. She's setting her sights on being queen of the P-1 Climax, and will use her considerable resources to claim that title…resources that include her three Personas, Cu Chulainn, Yoshitsune, and Ardha, and a staggering eight Persona cards.
It should also be noted that Margaret will be paid Downloadable Content and release one week after Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's Sept. 30th launch. With that being said, she is not going to be part of the first week free DLC duo of Tohru Adachi and Marie.
Can't wait. Love the Persona series.


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Q: C# - How to get TrustedConnection property from a SqlConnection I want to get connection string components from a string containing the conn string.
It is pretty simple to get Database, Sql Instance , Username and Password using a SqlConnectionStringBuilder, like this:
SqlConnectionStringBuilder cb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(cString);
this.textBoxUsername.Text = this.UserName = cb.UserID;
this.textBoxPassword.Text = this.Password = cb.Password;
...

My problem is that i want to get the TrustedConnection also, and i don't know how to do it.
Having the conn string "Server=Me\SQLEXPRESS;Database=AWEBL; Connection Timeout = 30;" Trusted_Connection=True;" , is it any other way than parsing the cString (connection string) to get the Trusted_Connection property ?
Thank you!

A: set:
cb["Trusted_Connection"] = true;

get:
var trustedConnection = cb["Trusted_Connection"];


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Winterslow Hut was a late 17th-century coaching inn on the London to Exeter stagecoach route at Winterslow, Wiltshire, England. Its isolated location on Salisbury Plain between Salisbury and Andover, with a spring close by, made it a useful resting place for drovers, and later for stage and mail coaches.

The quiet surroundings and solitude, interrupted only by the arrival of the coaches, also drew the critic and essayist William Hazlitt to the inn in the early 19th century, where he regularly rented a room and produced some of his greatest writing, including Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819) and the first volume of Table-Talk (1821).

Winterslow Hut was brought to national attention when an escaped lioness attacked the horses of the London-bound Quicksilver mail coach as it drew up outside the inn during the night of 20 October 1816.

During World War II, the inn was used as off-base officers' accommodation for Royal Air Force night fighter crews stationed at RAF Middle Wallop.

Fate

By the 20th century, the business was trading as the Pheasant Hotel or the Pheasant Inn. The inn closed in 2007 and the much-altered building is now four dwellings.

References

External links

 Pheasant Hotel at closedpubs.co.uk – with image

Pubs in Wiltshire
Coaching inns
Stagecoach stops

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kwcheck is a desktop analysis tool for C/C++ and Java developers using IDEs and text editors that aren't supported by Klocwork in the form of an IDE plug-in. You can also try the GUI tool Klocwork Desktop.
Set up a local project and connect it to a server project with kwcheck create.
Perform this step only the first time.
Capture build settings with kwant .
The following example applies to projects built with Ant 1.7.x or later. If your project is build with Ant 1.6.x, see Manual integration -- editing the Ant build file. If your project contains .jsp files, see Build specifications for projects that contain .jsp files.
Navigate to the directory that contains the build.xml file. (Skip this step if you specify the file name with the -f option of ant).
If you're a Maven user, you can use kwmaven to capture your build settings. The following example applies to projects built with Maven 1.5 or later.
Navigate to the directory that contains the pom.xml file. (Skip this step if you specify the file name with the -f option).
Keep your build specification up to date: Whenever you add files, remove files or change compilation flags, create a new build specification with kwant or kwmaven and import it into your project with kwcheck import. See Creating a Java build specification for more information about build specifications.
Import the build specification with kwcheck import.
Analyze your code with kwcheck run.
Display detected issues with kwcheck list.
Note: When you run the analysis, any new issues detected are local issues. To see system issues, you can specify the --system option.
Traceback identifies statements in the source code that contribute to detected issues.
See Java checker reference for documentation on detected issues.
When an issue disappears from the list, it's fixed.
Ignore issues you don't care about with kwcheck set-status.
kwcheck set-status 23-25,30,32 --status Ignore -c "this is 3rd party software"
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Attorneys general from 41 states are joining together to investigate the opioid industry.
After years of going it alone in investigating opioid drugmakers, attorneys general across the U.S. are joining forces to drill into painkiller marketing practices.
AGs in 41 states issued subpoenas to Endo, Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit, Teva Pharmaceutical and Allergan, and issued a request for further information to Purdue Pharma, as part of a bipartisan probe into the industry's role in the opioid addiction crisis.
Dozens of states, counties and local governments have independently sued opioid drugmakers, alleging they used fraudulent marketing to sell the powerful painkillers, thus fueling a nationwide epidemic. The newly pooled approach steps up those efforts as officials sift evidence to determine whether companies are culpable in the crisis.
"As we have shown in other contexts, broad coalitions of attorneys general can effectively impact national problems through litigation or settlements, often more effectively than they can when acting alone," Connecticut attorney general George Jepsen said in a Tuesday statement. Michigan AG Bill Schuette said the investigation focuses on the "marketing, distribution and sale of opioids."
As Kansas attorney general Derek Schmidt noted, the announcement is unusual because AGs typically wouldn't confirm or deny an active investigation. The officials aren't just looking at the drug industry, either. They also sent info requests to top drug distributors McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health, and are reaching out to health insurers to see how they might be able to help.
In a letter to America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which represents insurance companies, the attorneys general urged that industry to tweak its policies to "prioritize non-opioid pain management options over opioid prescriptions for the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain."
In response to the subpoena, an Allergan spokesperson said the company is "working cooperatively with state attorneys general in the multistate investigation on their requests for information regarding opioid marketing practices." He added that Allergan hasn't promoted its branded opioid Kadian since 2012 and hasn't promoted Norco since 2003. Together, those two meds accounted for .08% of U.S. opioid prescriptions last year, according to the company.
A spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson's Janssen said the drugmaker received and will "address the request from the coalition of state attorneys general, and will continue to work with stakeholders to support solutions."
"Janssen has acted responsibly and in the best interests of patients and physicians with regard to these medicines, which are FDA-approved and carry FDA-mandated warnings about possible risks on every product label," he continued. The company also said it gives doctors "complete and accurate" information on prescribing its opioids.
A Teva spokesperson the company is "committed to the appropriate promotion and use of opioids."
"We have programs in place that educate prescribers, pharmacists, and patients on the responsible and safe use of these products," she added. "We are committed to working with the healthcare community, regulators and public officials to collaboratively find solutions."
Endo declined to comment. Representatives for Purdue didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
As industry watchers know, the investigation comes after numerous states and local governments independently sued opioid drugmakers for their alleged role in the deadly epidemic. Ohio in a lawsuit said the companies borrowed a page from the "Big Tobacco playbook" to convince "key opinion leaders" and professional societies of the benefits of opioids while downplaying risks. As each new suit is filed, the industry's legal expenses and potential liability grows.
The FDA has also gotten involved in the situation, pushing Endo to remove one of its opioids and promising a review of the risks and benefits of similar drugs on the market.
Opioid overdoses kill 91 people in the U.S. each day, according to the CDC.


Open House London is an annual celebration of the iconic, historic and important buildings of the capital, and ahead of 2018's event, it's been announced that the US Embassy in London will be opening its doors to the general public.
The event, which takes place over the weekend of September 22 to 23, sees more than 750 buildings in London opening their doors for free to the public. As well as the US Embassy, a range of buildings including homes, offices and even breweries will be available to visit.
Other highlights include the Grade-II Listed BT Tower, Bloomberg's new European headquarters, the Royal Opera House, The Shard and even Number 10 Downing Street.
Whilst many venues will be open for all members of the public to visit, some buildings will operate a balloted entry system. The full details on 2018's Open House London will be revealed on August 21, including details on accessible buildings and ballots. Keep an eye on openhouselondon.org.uk for more details.


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How To Find The Best Temp To Vape Weed
Francis Cassidy January 9, 2020 0 comments
Saving those precious medicinal terpenes will mean figuring out the right temperature.
Whether it's the memory-boosting morning kick from pinene or the sedative effects of myrcene come the evening, selectively varying the vape temperature will tailor your own medicinal needs. So what is the best temp to vape weed for you?
The Effects of Vape Temperature
The temp at which you vape a particular strain or chemovar can have a surprising effect on the end experience. There are one-hundred and thirteen cannabinoids, over two-hundred terpenes, and twenty-three different flavonoids currently identified in the cannabis plant. Each has a different boiling point, and by setting your vape pen to a certain temperature, you can easily isolate these.
Terpenes, in particular, are one of the most therapeutic compounds in the cannabis plant. When it comes to concentrates, the extraction process all too easily destroys these compounds. As a result, many consumers miss out on enhanced medicinal benefits.
Vaping Basics: Flower vs Oil
In light of the recent surge of vaping-related illnesses, vaping flower over THC oil cartridges appears to be the official recommendation. The benefits are two-fold. First, it ensures the avoidance of any dangerous added compounds which may effect lung health. And secondly, vaping raw flower ensures a full-spectrum of available compounds. Also, keep in mind that many of the oil concentrates on the market are not full-spectrum, and so offer less medicinal benefits.
What is the Best Temp to Vape Weed?
For simplicity's sake, the range of vaping temperatures is often broken down into three ranges: low, medium, and high. Each range targets the release of specific compounds, so a herb vaporizer with an adjustable temperature setting is all you will need.
Low-Temperature Vaping: 310°F to 330°F
Those using cannabis strictly for medicinal purposes rarely appreciate an overwhelming medicated effect. If you still need to carry out everyday tasks while medicated, then vaping at a low temperature ensures the release of compounds that can often provide a productive medicinal effect.
The key terpenes released at lower temperatures include pinene (312°F) and caryophyllene (256°F).
Taming THC, a study published in The British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy (2011), describes pinene as an "acetylcholinesterase inhibitor." In layman's terms, this means it improves memory by preventing the breakdown of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. THC intoxication can occasionally result in temporary short-term memory deficits among patients, and that's something pinene can mitigate effectively.
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Caryophyllene is another terpene with a low boiling point. Known for its potent anti-inflammatory effects, this terpene has become a favorite of medicinal cannabis patients.
Vaping at low temperatures also ensures the release of THC (312°F). Patients often find that the effects aren't quite as strong as vaping herb at higher temperatures. At such temperatures, the taste of the herb is also subtle, with the notable taste of the evaporated terpenes very much present.
Medium Temperature Vaping: 330°F to 370°F
In addition to releasing more THC, the rise in temperature also ensures the release of terpenes, such as myrcene (332°F) and limonene (352°F).
Myrcene results in increased permeability across the blood-brain barrier. This aids cannabinoids such as THC in crossing the barrier and thus leads to more potent effects. In addition, myrcene is popular for its pain-relieving and sedative properties.
Myrcene is an important terpene in medicinal cannabis and this study, published in the Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology (2002), demonstrates its potent ability to treat anxiety, insomnia, and sleep disorders.
Limonene is a potent terpene that offers several benefits that include mood elevation and increased feelings of euphoria. Both characteristics lead to it being effective in treating anxiety, depression, and stress.
High-Temperature Vaping: 370°F to 430°F
Vaping temperatures in excess of 370°F approaches combustion. Vaping at such temperatures can often mean the vape becomes more like smoke, and it can often taste harsh.
At these temperatures, you'll be sure to extract every last THC molecule. As for terpenes, there's one remaining major terpene that doesn't boil until the temperature reaches 390°F, and that's linalool. Known for its calming and anxiety-relieving properties, linalool also has analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. The compound often aids those with insomnia due to its sedative nature. However, it's fair to say this is not the best temp to vape weed if the aim of your cannabis experience is to reap the benefits of other terpenes. If you are killing pain, however, this temp can provide added benefit.
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Selecting the Right Chemovar
With so much interbreeding, the days of indica and sativa having any sort of meaning are long gone. Chemovar is now the modern term to describe the effects of a strain. This is something that's based on the ratios of cannabinoids, flavonoids, and terpenes.
In legal jurisdictions, much of the cannabis on sale is lab tested. This enables consumers to see the exact ratios of terpenes present in the flower. Once armed with this information, patients can then begin experimenting with different vaping temperatures to select different groups of terpenes dependent on the effects they desire.
Lastly, storing cannabis improperly will result in it losing much of its potency. Terpenes are some of the more delicate compounds in the cannabis plant and will quickly degrade if exposed to oxygen or sunlight. Ensure your cannabis is in an airtight container in a cool dark location. Without taking these measures and preserving those all-important compounds, it won't matter much what temperature you decide to vape.
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iSpecimen Building Cloud-Based System for Patient Sample Procurement
Mar 17, 2017 | Adam Bonislawski
NEW YORK (360Dx) – Sample collection firm iSpecimen is developing a cloud-based system for streamlining procurement of patient samples.
The system, which the company plans to launch in May, will allow researchers to place online requests for specific sample types that iSpecimen will then work to fill via its various clinical partners.
Comparing it to travel websites like Kayak.com, Christopher Ianelli, iSpecimen's founder and CEO, said the tool will allow users to "go to our website and enter in exactly what they need, and then we'll search across our network and tell them when we find what they are looking for."
According to the company, its network of sample providers currently consists of more than 250 hospitals labs, 1,000 clinics and medical practices, 12 biorepositories, 10 commercial labs, six clinical trial organizations, and one large blood center.
Ianelli launched iSpecimen in 2009 with the aim of providing researchers access to patient sample remnants — the leftover portions of clinical samples that are typically thrown away after whatever tests ordered by a patient's physician are done.
The idea was based on an existing system at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Ianelli did his residency.
The system at Brigham and Women's tracked samples as they entered and passed through the hospital's clinical laboratories and allowed researchers to put in requests for those samples that they wanted to use in their work.
"So, if you're a researcher working on multiple sclerosis or ALS or whatever it may be, instead of having to go out to patients to get that sample of blood or plasma that you may need for your research, you could now make a request that the clinical laboratory keep an eye out for it," Ianelli said. "And if that clinical lab happened to see a sample from a patient like the one that a researcher was requesting, at the end of clinical testing, instead of throwing it away, the clinical lab could re-tube it, relabel it, and send it across the hall or down the street for that researcher to use. And what they would be sending would be completely de-identified."
Given that most hospitals and clinical labs around the country likewise throw out clinical samples left over after testing, Ianelli founded iSpecimen with the plan to scale the notion behind the Brigham and Women's program to a broader multihospital sample collection firm.
The company, which is not affiliated with Brigham and Women's, has since expanded to offer not just remnant samples but samples from other sources like biorepositories, as well as fresh tumor samples procured from patient surgeries.
Remnant samples have proven popular for biomarker discovery and validation work, particularly for genomic applications where concerns about the stability of the target molecules are not especially pressing, Ianelli said.
"Leftover blood usually gives you adequate-length DNA, so if you're just doing genomic analysis, you might be able to use clinical remnants to save yourself a lot of time and money collecting those samples," he said.
On the other hand, he noted, research involving less stable molecules like RNA probably can't make use of a remnant "because what you're looking for has degraded by the time you're going to get it. So, there we would say you have to go out and collect that sample just for your purposes, or go to biorepositories that collected it under the right conditions and froze it right away, so that it's still adequate for what you're trying to do."
Assembling suitable patient cohorts is one of the biggest logistical and financial challenges in biomarker research and molecular diagnostic development, where, even after bringing tests to market, companies have struggled to stay in business while generating the large amounts of clinical data required to prove clinical utility and drive adoption.
A number of companies aim to fill this gap, including firms like BioIVT, Asterand, 12B2 (funded by the National Institutes of Health) and Explorys (part of IBM). Recently, Novaseek, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup launched with the goal of providing what it said is an "end-to-end" solution for defining patient cohorts, requesting specimens, and tracking, managing, and analyzing study data through its cloud-based Clinical Data Network for Research platform.
Ianelli said that using remnant samples provides savings of "an order of magnitude" compared to traditional patient recruitment.
"A clinical remnant sells on the order of tens of dollars," he said. "To go out and find a cohort of patients, and then collect that blood just for your research purposes, you're going to spend hundreds of dollars, maybe even into the thousands of dollars per patient."
Additionally, use of remnants can speed up sample collection efforts, he said. "We're watching such a large network of these, that you can get your collection much faster."
Currently iSpecimen's network has access to more than 25 million clinical remnants, Ianelli said. In total, the company has provided close to around 100,000 such samples to around 100 different customers, he added.
While remnants are popular in diagnostics research, applications like drug development typically require more deliberately collected samples. For instance, iSpecimen customer Cellaria Biosciences develops custom mouse xenograft models for cancer drug discovery and research, which requires fresh patient tumor tissue.
David Deems, president of Cellaria, noted that here, too, going through a company like iSpecimen is "significantly less expensive" than procuring samples in-house.
Also important, he said, is the breadth of the company's network.
"I would say that is one of the key strengths of what iSpecimen brought to us," Deems said. "If they had brought just a singular channel, it would be less interesting to us as a partnership, but because of the existing network that they had, it allowed us to immediately expand the sourcing of our tumors to other tumor types that we did not have a channel to provide."
He said that Cellaria obtains around 70 percent of its samples through outside vendors like iSpecimen, adding that the company uses several different firms, though iSpecimen is the only one it uses for a range of tumor types.
"Our other channels are very specific around disease," he said. He declined to name any of the other companies Cellaria uses to source samples.
Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, iSpecimen currently has just under 40 employees, Ianelli said. The company is privately funded and closed a $2 million Series A round in 2012 and an $8 million Series B round in 2014.


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Q: Derivation of Backward Kolmogorov Equation I'm following Kallianpur-Gopinath's textbook "Stochastic analysis and diffusion processes" to study Kolmogorov equations and I got stuck in a step of the derivation of the backward equation.
In particular the authors (guess it's a pretty standard construction actually) start from the solution of a d-dimensional SDE
$$dX_t = b(t,X_t)dt + \sigma(t,X_t)dB_t$$
and, after computing the Taylor expansion of the probability transition function, arrive to write something like
$$ -\big(p(s,x;t,y) -p(s-h,x;t,y)\big) = \sum_{i=1}^d \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}p(s,x;t,y) \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}(z_i-x_i)p(s-h,x;s,z)dz + \\
\frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=1}^d\sum_{j=1}^d \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i \partial x_j}p(s,x;t,y) \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}(z_i-x_i)(z_j-x_j)p(s-h,x;s,z)dz +\\
\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} o\big(|z-x|^3\big) p(s-h,x;s,z)dz\\$$
By dividing by $h$ and letting $h \to 0$ we should get the backward equation
$$ -\frac{ \partial p(s,x;t,y) }{ \partial s } = b(s,x) \cdot \nabla p(s,x;t,y) + \frac{1}{2} (\sigma(s,x), \nabla^2 p(s,x;t,y) \sigma(s,x) ) $$
what I don't understand is the step
$$ \lim_{h\to 0} \frac{1}{h} \int_{\mathbb{R}^d} (z_i-x_i) p(s-h,x;s,z)dz \stackrel{?}{=} b_i(s,x)$$
I understand this should be related with the fact that the solutions of SDE are diffusion processes, but the definition of diffusion process requires
$$ \lim_{h\to 0} \frac{1}{h} \int_{U_x} (z_i-x_i) p(s-h,x;s,z)dz = b_i(s,x)$$
for any bounded neighborhood $U_x$ of $x$, but instead we are considering an integral over $\mathbb{R}^d$. Even if I split the integral in two, one over a bounded set and one over its complement I don't see how to prove that the second goes to $0$. Any help is appreciated.
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Quoting from the same book:

A Markov process $X_t$ with transition function $p(s,x;t,A)$ is called a diffusion process if it has continuous paths and if there exists an $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued function $b(s,x)$ and a $d \times d$-matrix-valued function $a(t,x)$ s.t. for every bounded open neighborhood $U_x$ of $x$

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*$\lim_{h \downarrow 0} \frac{1}{h} \int_{U_x^c} p(t,x;t+h,dy) = 0$

*$\lim_{h \downarrow 0} \frac{1}{h} \int_{U_x} (y_i - x_i) p(t,x;t+h,dy) = b_i(t,x) \ \ \ \ i \in \{1...d\}$

*$\lim_{h \downarrow 0} \frac{1}{h} \int_{U_x} (y_i - x_i)(y_j - x_j) p(t,x;t+h,dy) = a_{i,j}(t,x) \ \ \ \ i,j \in \{1...d\}$

and immediately after there is a theorem that states that the solution of the SDE written at the top of this post, under the usual hypotheses of Lipschitzianity of $b$ and $\sigma$, is a diffusion process with drift $b$ and diffusion coefficient $\sigma \sigma^*$.

A: The authors say that 'we will formally derive a pair of parabolic pdes known as the Kolmogorov backward and forward equations' at the beginning of Section 8.3. It's easy to miss, but the use of expansion indicates a heuristic presentation. A rigorous derivation is provided in Section 8.6.


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Injured Professional Athletes Returning to Play Too Soon
When professional athletes are injured, whether during a game or practice session, there is a lot of pressure to return to the game quickly. Lost playing time means lost money and possible wins.
Healing after a disabling injury can take a lot of time, more time than many pro ball players are able or willing to take to adequately recover from their injuries. Pressure from other players, coaches and team owners add to the desire of the individual player to get off the bench and back in the action.
However, returning to the field, diamond, track, court or rink prematurely can cause more damage to the player than his or her original injury. Every day, the news reveals numerous cases of setbacks, exacerbations, re-injuries and flare-ups with many pro athletes. A slower return to active play may be the best advice for athletes of all ages and playing levels.
Pain at the point of injury usually signifies that a player is not yet fully healed. Use of cortisone shots or other types of injections may mask the pain, making it appear the player is ready to return. Unfortunately, cortisone shots are only short-term solutions and do not heal the actual cause of the pain, the injured part of the body.
Team trainers and doctors are getting smarter, especially when it comes to concussions and other brain injuries, but each injured player is urged to be smart about his or her return to the game; the player is the one who suffers most by returning too quickly.
Source: CBS, "Injured Baseball Players Continue To Return To Action Prematurely," Abby Sims, Sept. 5, 2012
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Sony announces the a7S III full-frame camera
The new Sony a7S III. (Source: Sony)
Sony has finally launched the successor to the a7S II. It comes with a new BIONZ XR image processor, a new CMOS sensor with an effective resolution of 12.1MP and a new thermal management system that may improve 4K 60p 10-bit 4:2:2 record times. Sony has also debuted the new CFexpress Type A storage format.
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Sony's latest 35mm full-frame unit is the a7S III, making it the first launch in its sub-series since 2015. The OEM had promised an "all-new" design inside and out for this camera, and it has delivered. It has a new processor, image sensor and form-factor. Even the rear screen is new to its line - it is an LCD vari-angle panel that flips out to the side rather than upward, and is only found in the ZV-1 among Sony's cameras to date -.
In fact, the OEM has even re-arranged the menus in the a7S III's interface. This camera also brings Fast Hybrid auto-focus (AF) to the a7S line for the first time, which means it has both phase-detect (PDAF) and contrast-detect AF. It also features Sony's award-winning Eye AF and low-light-optimized AF.
In accordance with its leaks, the a7S III supports up to 4K/120fps, and can record RAW over HDMI too. Sony also asserts that its new heat-dissipating system allows it to push recording times to over an hour, albeit in its 4K/60p 10-bit 4:2:2 mode. It also comes with the rumored upgraded OLED electronic view-finder (EVF), which at a whopping 9.44 million dots is the highest-res in its category.
Another example of the new alpha-series' upgrades may be its charging port, which is now USB type C and supports Power Delivery (USB-PD), which may allow the user to record on external power for longer. The Sony a7SIII will be released in September 2020, and will cost US$3,499.99 through the OEM's authorized dealers.
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China Halted Int'l Cruises From Mainland Ports in Late January, Official Says
DATE: Mar 16 2020
(Yicai Global) March 16 -- China suspended international cruises departing from mainland ports at the end of January, according to a government official.
The measure involved 10 cruise ships from seven lines, Yang Xinzhai, deputy director of the Maritime Safety Administration, told a press conference today. Passenger and freight services between China and Japan, and China and South Korea have also been halted, he said.
The global coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on the sector, with multiple liners stranded at sea or quarantined in dock when given safe harbor.
China has set up a management system for liners that are still operating, strictly controlling their loads and passenger registers, Yang said.
The country is also stepping up organizational research to formulate a comprehensive and targeted emergency response plan for public health emergencies on big cruises to ensure the sustainable and healthy development of China's cruise industry.
Two public health incidents occurred on cruise ships in China during the Lunar New Year holiday this year, he said. One was the Costa Selina anchored at Tianjin International Cruise Home Port, and the other was the Costa Venice anchored at Shenzhen Shekou Cruise Homeport. People with fevers were found on both ships. With the cooperation of local authorities, both ships were dealt with.
Tianjin received a report from a shipping agent on Jan. 24 that 15 people had a fever on the Costa Selina which was scheduled to dock in Tianjin on Jan. 25. The ship had a total of 148 passengers from Hubei province, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, on board.
Tianjin immediately organized experts and medical workers to board the ship to run tests, while the authorities implemented a 'double plan': arrange the home port to prepare for the disembarkation of passengers while deploying other ships to provide daily supplies in a timely manner and to put all the people from the stricken craft in quarantine. The test results all came back negative.
Finally, Tianjin completed the cancellation and rebooking of outbound passengers, centralized transfer of inbound passengers, and emergency evacuation at the home port in less than 24 hours.
The Costa Venice, originally scheduled to arrive at Shenzhen's Shekou home port on Jan. 26, carried 6,222 passengers, including 414 Hubei tourists. A total of 13 people on the cruise had fever.
Shenzhen's test results that day showed all samples were negative. Shenzhen decided to put 148 people with a history of tourism, residence and contact in Wuhan under centralized quarantine and medical observation while allowing the remaining passengers to leave in an orderly manner.
The 5,155 people who were scheduled to board the ship on the same day cancelled their voyages and their tickets were refunded.
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Keywords: Cruises,Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia
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