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10 medtech hazards you need to watch out for in 2021
January 28, 2021 By Nancy Crotti
1. Managing medical devices under emergency use authorizations
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To meet the unprecedented need for medical equipment and supplies during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the FDA temporarily authorized the use of hundreds of previously unapproved medical products. That includes 321 EUAs for diagnostics, 26 for PPE, 27 for medical devices, 105 for ventilators, tubing connectors and accessories, and 10 for drugs, including vaccines.
When the health emergency ends or the FDA revokes an EUA — which can happen at any time — the covered device reverts to unapproved status. At that time, the legal protections that support the use of EUA devices on new patients are terminated. Plus, EUA devices may not be as safe or effective as devices that have been through FDA's normal clearance process, ECRI warns.
"Emergency use authorization is a lower standard than is used to assess safety and effectiveness through FDA's normal clearance process, and it requires more work on the part of the hospital," said ECRI president & CEO Dr. Marcus Schabacker in a news release.
Healthcare facilities must manage inventories of EUA devices and their documentation, monitor each device's status daily to determine whether the EUA remains active and unchanged, and determine what to do with these devices once the EUA ends.
"Failing to do so could create safety risks for patients and liability risks for the hospital," Schabacker said. "We're concerned that hospitals might not have adequate processes in place to deal with this complex challenge."
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Homeland Insecurity: Biden Budget Flatlines Border Enforcement
By Bob Dane June 24, 2021 2 Comments
President Joe Biden's Fiscal Year 2022 budget calls for double-digit percentage increases in domestic spending, but there is a glaring exception: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In what Sen. Shelley Capito, R-West Virginia, calls "highly conspicuous thrift," the administration intends to keep DHS funding flat at $52 billion, even as waves of illegal aliens continue to flow across the southern border with little or no resistance.
Last week, Rep. John Katko, R-New York, cited "alarming" early-retirement rates among frustrated Border Patrol personnel, and asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if the new budget would fund more officers to bolster the thinning Green Line. Mayorkas responded: "It does not."
As Border Patrol morale is driven down by feckless catch-and-release policies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehensions and deportations have plummeted in the U.S. interior. Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson stated in a February memo that "limited resources" hobbled his agency's work. Johnson's assertion could be read as a self-serving excuse, but no one in the administration disputed his claim.
While shortchanging critical DHS functions, Biden's budget provides billions of dollars in payments to three countries that accounted for 40 percent of migrants arriving here in the past year (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras). Purportedly, these outlays would address the "source" of the immigration problem.
But FAIR has found that without effectively securing the U.S. border, such disbursements do nothing to slow illegal migration (though the cash does find its way into the pockets of corrupt government officials, cartels, etc.).
Andrew Arthur, of the Center for Immigration Studies, points out, hopefully, that Congress will have something to say about all this. "The budget request is just that — the administration's request for funding. Congress holds the purse strings under our constitutional order."
Democrats should join Republicans in recognizing the obvious need for robust security and enforcement. "If the administration is not going to control the massive migrant flow and defend the border, somebody has to," Arthur says.
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An interview with Sajedeh Taghizadeh
A romantic story of the life of a martyr's wife in "Mrs. Moon"
The book "Mrs. Moon" is about Mrs. Naaz Alinejad, who is martyr Shir Ali Soltani's wife.
It is an attractive novel and a different story about the love and sacrifice of one of the wives of martyrs and women heroes of the Iranian nation, which has been written by Sajedeh Taghizadeh.
In the beginning, she explained how she chose the narrative of this woman's life and said: The life of this lady was fascinating to me, as a writer, I usually choose subjects with which I can empathize more, that's why I chose the life of Naz Alinejad.
"Despite her young age, Mrs. Alinejad faced many challenges in her life. At the age of 27, despite having 5 children, she lost her husband in the Beit-ol moqaddas operation. After her husband's martyrdom, she had to handle life all on her own, especially since he had bequeathed her not to receive help from any institution after his martyrdom," she added.
Pointing out that it took about 5 years to conduct the interview, write the book, and editing, this author said: "I tried to adhere to the interview and not add imagination to it while writing the book."
"The story of this lady's life can inspire the girls and young women of our society. It's amazing how a woman makes progress in a rural environment, in the absence of her husband despite numerous financial, social and other problems," said Sajedeh Taghizadeh.
She emphasized that our society needs role models in every field. According to his author, successful women in various social, cultural, scientific fields should be introduced as role models so that girls and teenagers can be inspired by their lives.
Referring to the various interpretations of the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom", she said that if the youth in our society get involved in the sedition of the enemies, it is because we failed to introduce good role models of women to them.
She continued that "Mrs. Moon" narrates the life of Mrs. Naz Alinejad in 3 chapters in the form of short and continuous stories.
A small part of this 300-page book is dedicated to the time of her husband's presence and narrates a romantic, simple, carefree life, but the main part of the book is the narration of her life after her husband's martyrdom and how she handled life alone.
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require_relative "../../test_helper"

class Test::AdminUi::Login::TestUsernameNotEmail < Minitest::Capybara::Test
  include Capybara::Screenshot::MiniTestPlugin
  include ApiUmbrellaTestHelpers::Setup
  include ApiUmbrellaTestHelpers::AdminAuth
  include Minitest::Hooks

  def setup
    super
    setup_server
    once_per_class_setup do
      Admin.delete_all
      @admin = FactoryBot.create(:admin)

      override_config_set({
        "web" => {
          "admin" => {
            "username_is_email" => false,
          },
        },
      }, ["--router", "--web"])
    end
  end

  def after_all
    super
    override_config_reset(["--router", "--web"])
  end

  def test_username_label_on_login
    visit "/admin/login"
    assert_text("Admin Sign In")

    assert_text("Username")
    refute_text("Email")
  end

  def test_username_label_on_listing
    admin_login
    visit "/admin/#/admins"
    assert_text("Admins")

    assert_text("Username")
    refute_text("Email")
  end

  def test_username_and_email_label_on_form
    admin_login
    visit "/admin/#/admins/new"
    assert_text("Add Admin")

    assert_field("Username", :count => 1)
    assert_field("Email", :count => 1)
  end

  def test_allows_different_username_and_email
    admin_login

    # Create admin
    visit "/admin/#/admins/new"
    assert_text("Add Admin")
    fill_in "Username", :with => unique_test_id.upcase
    fill_in "Email", :with => "#{unique_test_id.upcase}@example.com"
    check "Superuser"
    click_button "Save"
    assert_text("Successfully saved the admin")
    page.execute_script("window.PNotifyRemoveAll()")

    # Find admin record, and ensure username and email are different.
    admin = Admin.where(:username => unique_test_id.downcase).first
    assert(admin)
    assert_equal(unique_test_id.downcase, admin.username)
    assert_equal("#{unique_test_id.downcase}@example.com", admin.email)

    # Edit admin
    visit "/admin/#/admins/#{admin.id}/edit"
    assert_text("Edit Admin")
    assert_field("Username", :with => unique_test_id.downcase)
    assert_field("Email", :with => "#{unique_test_id.downcase}@example.com")
    fill_in "Username", :with => "#{unique_test_id.upcase}-update"
    fill_in "Email", :with => "#{unique_test_id.upcase}-different@example.com"
    click_button "Save"
    assert_text("Successfully saved the admin")
    page.execute_script("window.PNotifyRemoveAll()")

    # Ensure edits still keep things different.
    admin.reload
    assert_equal("#{unique_test_id.downcase}-update", admin.username)
    assert_equal("#{unique_test_id.downcase}-different@example.com", admin.email)
  end
end

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California and Maine Will Provide Free Meals to All Students in the Fall
Updates and Resources
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California and Maine will extend the free school lunch programs that started during the pandemic to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of their income status.
They are the first states to adopt a universal free lunch program.
Giving all students free lunch helps reduce some of the stigma attached to qualifying for the program and allows more children to benefit.
Two states—California and Maine—recently voted to provide all public school students free meals during the school day no matter a student's income level.
The decision, set to take effect in the upcoming fall term, is a permanent continuation of the emergency mandates put in place to ensure that children were fed in spite of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
California and Maine are the first states to adopt a universal free lunch program, which will level the playing field for students who do not receive daily meals or adequate nutrition at home and face undernourishment. Several U.S. cities like New York and Chicago currently have similar programs in place.
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By extending these programs, the states have set a precedent for prioritizing childhood hunger and its effects on the development of school-aged kids. Ensuring that children are fed not only promotes their physical and psychological development but contributes to their success in the classroom as well.
"This is a huge support service to students, parents, and teachers after a really difficult year," Venus Kalami, MNSP, RD, clinical dietitian for Stanford Children's Health, tells Verywell. "California is a big state and this decision sets a precedent to hopefully inspire other states to do the same."
Proper Nutrition Is Key
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures brought the issue of food insecurity and hunger globally to the forefront. It's also led the country to a crossroads on how to confront the issue.
Extensive research shows that academic success is linked to a child's basic needs—including shelter, clothing, food, and a safe and loving environment—being met.
For over 13 million children, the basic need for sufficient nutrition is not being met. These students are left hungry and unable to focus not only on their schoolwork but on all areas of their learning and development.
Children who are hungry may experience:
Lower academic achievement
Social and behavior issues
Mood and mental health conditions
Harms in cognitive development and brain growth
Chronic stress caused by meal uncertainty
Physical growth and development delays
Low self-esteem and confidence
Kalami highlights that national supplemental nutrition programs such as those for women, infants, and children (WIC), and the National School Lunch Program encompass the "whole village" approach to caring for our children. They also both, stimulate the economy and help reduce instances of chronic illness in our youth.
"Everyone gets something out of it," Kalami says. "These programs really pull their weight. The economy sees returns of three times what they put into it through the reduction in healthcare costs, and increased learning and school attendance."
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The Free Lunch Stigma
The National School Lunch Program uses federal and state funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help public and nonprofit schools nationwide offer both free and low-cost meals to at-risk students who qualify based on income, homeless, migrant, runaway, or foster youth status.
To qualify for free meals, a family of four must make less than $34,000 a year and $48,000 to qualify for reduced-price meals.
The National School Lunch Program was established in 1946 under President Harry Truman. In 2016, it provided meals to 30.4 million students.
While the program works to address the needs of vulnerable school-aged kids, stigma has also become attached to taking part in the program. Kids who get free or reduced lunch may face shame and isolation from peers, which may cause them to avoid the lunch line altogether.
The logistics of signing up for a free or reduced lunch program can also be challenging—especially if their parents or guardians do not speak English.
"There is definitely a stigma surrounding the free lunch program," Kalami says. "For students and parents that use English as a second language, offering free lunch for all can help reduce the barriers to getting their child signed up."
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Other obstacles that can keep eligible students from receiving free or reduced school lunch include:
Lack of awareness that there is a free lunch program
The need for Internet access to sign up
The need for literacy to get information and sign up
For immigrant families, the fear of disclosing undocumented status
When free lunch is provided to all students, instead of just some, it removes barriers to access, stigma, and the fear of being teased or singled out.
What This Means For You
Some states are starting or continuing free school lunch programs for the upcoming school year. Reach out to your local school district for information on how to register for free and reduced lunch programs where you live.
If you're struggling with food insecurity, you can find a local food bank near you here. And if your state does not yet have free school lunch programs for all students, there are still ways that you can help make sure that kids in your community are fed.
Non-profit organization Feeding America, suggests helping by:
Volunteering your time and talents to a local food pantry or food bank
Making donations and fundraising
Joining the conversation (in-person and online)
Setting up food drives in your community
American Psychological Association. What are the psychological effects of hunger on children?
Feeding America. How hunger affects learning. Updated August 8, 2019.
ECMC Foundation. Basic Needs Initiative. Supporting the whole student by fulfilling basic needs.
Feeding America. Food insecurity and poverty in the US. Updated March, 2021.
United States Department of Agriculture. The National School Lunch Program Fact Sheet. Updated November 2017.
Feeding America. Advocating to end hunger.
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Elite N.S. skaters — they train in central Canada
Halifax is hosting the National Skating Championships this week, but the province is producing few elite skaters
By Luke Yates
January 21, 2016, 6:56 pm ADTLast Updated: January 21, 2016, 7:06 pm
Walmsley performing her long program in practice Luke Yates
Stephanie Walmsley is excited to be back home competing at the Canadian National Skating Championships in Halifax this week.
"It feels awesome. I get the home crowd and my family can come watch. It's great," she says.
But the Halifax native says she wouldn't be competing at this level if she hadn't left Nova Scotia.
"I feel like there's just not enough ice and resources put into skating in Nova Scotia," she says.
Chan and Chartrand win national skating titles (January 22, 2016)
A quick glance down the start list shows an alarming statistic. Of about 250 skaters competing in Halifax this week, only three are representing Nova Scotia.
Walmsley looks across the ice before starting a new training move. Luke Yates
Gina Cipriano, originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, and Bradley Keeping-Myra from Dartmouth, N.S., came tenth in the Junior Ice Dance category earlier in the week, and Walmsley begins her competition in the Senior Women's category Friday afternoon. But despite representing Nova Scotia, none of the athletes are based in the province.
Walmsley took up skating while living in Dartmouth at the age of seven, but moved to Toronto when she was 14 for better access to coaching and facilities.
Cipriano and Keeping-Myra currently train in Montreal.
"To do something with your skating, I think it's necessary to move away," says Keeping-Myra.
Jill Knowles, executive director at Skate Canada Nova Scotia, says part of the problem is the small number of skaters. She gives the example that Québec has about 200 pre-novice women, while Nova Scotia has only 20. She also says ice time and quality coaching are scarce.
Knowles says that in the big skating cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, "many, many coaches can make a living teaching skating because there are so many rinks with lots of ice time available. In Nova Scotia that is a very difficult thing to do."
Better training atmosphere
In addition to the resources, a lack of top-level competition is hurting skating in Nova Scotia.
"The atmosphere is also better. It's more competitive in central Ontario. You see that in competitions too," says Walmsley, who adds that she had a top-level coach in Toronto and now trains in Hamilton, where she is studying life sciences.
Walmsley practicing a fast spin.
Walmsley practicing a jump.
A dance element in Walmsley's routine.
Walmsley skates out of a crowd.
Out of 15 pairs in the Junior Ice Dance category, four came from the same training group in Montreal as Cipriano and Keeping-Myra.
Knowles concedes that it was necessary for the junior pair to leave the province to further their skating careers, saying, "They need to have other dancers on the ice to push them to be better, so they had to go away."
Plenty of talent
But there is hope for skating in Nova Scotia. Keeping-Myra feels the key is to change the way the top athletes in the province train by making an elite group that can push each other to reach a higher standard.
"There's lots of talent in Nova Scotia," he says. "The only thing that's missing is getting that training environment where all the high-level athletes – all the high-level skaters in Nova Scotia – train together."
Knowles hopes that hosting the national championship for the first time since 2007 will help boost participation.
"If we can increase the numbers at the grassroots level, then hopefully the numbers will increase for our competitive skaters as well," she says.
Good performances
Cipriano and Keeping-Myra performed well at the competition this week and were happy with how they skated, earning personal best marks in both the short dance and free dance.
Walmsley is looking forward to her competition.
"I think it will be good. I felt ready today," she says.
The main competition begins at lunchtime on Friday, and will culminate Saturday evening. There will be several World Champions and Olympic medallists on show.
A brief history of Canadian skating


Mayor Rob Ford is denying an allegation he offered $5,000 and a car in exchange for the video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine.
In May, Ford denied the existence of the video and denied he smokes crack cocaine. Police Chief Bill Blair confirmed in October the video exists and Ford conceded in November he has smoked crack while he was mayor.
The Junkies did not ask him any of the other information in the police document released on Wednesday, which suggested he was smoking crack again in late April, had relationships with alleged members of the Dixon City Bloods gang, was targeted for blackmail, and obtained his missing cellphone from the gang in exchange for marijuana. None of the allegations in the police document have been proven in court.
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"Can I get back to these football games?" he asked amiably after addressing a question about his political future.
Ford walked past reporters outside his city hall office when he arrived at work Thursday morning.


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Carrie Southworth
Title: Carrie Southworth
Subject: Larry Page, First Evil, Dirty Girls, General Hospital: Night Shift
Coddy Johnson
Carrie Southworth is an www.twigtale.com - a personalized children's book company launched in 2011.
Southworth majored in economics at the University of Virginia, and started modeling for Elite Model Management at age 17.[1] In a 2008 interview, Southworth noted, "After I graduated with my economics degree, I had a choice between modeling and working on the bond trading floor at Chase Manhattan Bank ... The bank was boring, so I went back to modeling. That led to acting, and here I am!"[1]
In 2008 Southworth landed the contract role of new medical intern Dr. Claire Simpson in the second season of General Hospital: Night Shift, a prime time spin-off of the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.[2] The 13-episode limited series aired from July 22, 2008 to October 14, 2008. As of March 2008, the first season of Night Shift was "SOAPnet's most-watched series ever."[3] Southworth's character also headlined an online series of webisodes called Night Shift: Claire & Kyle, with her Night Shift co-star Adam Grimes in his role of Dr. Kyle Julian.[4] The actress had also appeared on General Hospital itself for three episodes in 2006 in the role of Dr. Gwen Miller, a minor love interest for one of the later contract roles on Night Shift, Jason Thompson's Dr. Patrick Drake.[5]
Southworth has also guest-starred on several television series, including the 2003 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Dirty Girls," Las Vegas (2004/2005), CSI: Miami (2006), Pepper Dennis (2006), Justice (2006) and Rules of Engagement (2007). She appeared in the films The Look (2003), Phat Girlz (2006) and These Days (2006).[5]
In 2005 Southworth married Collister "Coddy" Johnson,[6] son of Collister "Terry" Johnson, Jr.[7] Coddy's godfather is the former U.S. President George W. Bush, who had been the roommate of the elder Johnson at Yale University.[6][7]
Southworth's younger sister Lucinda (Lucy) is the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.[8]
Southworth spent four years of her childhood living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where her father was posted with the World Bank.[9]
Southworth's father is Van Roy Southworth[10] (Ph.D, Stanford University), who retired from the World Bank after assignments in Tanzania, Croatia and the Republic of Georgia. Her mother Cathy McLain, an education psychologist, has established an NGO, "McLain Associations for Children", in the Republic of Georgia and "Stepping Stones International Organization" (www.ssnpo.org) in the US to help children with disabilities and their families.
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class GitTagPushService < BaseService
  attr_accessor :push_data

  def execute
    project.repository.after_create if project.empty_repo?
    project.repository.before_push_tag

    @push_data = build_push_data

    EventCreateService.new.push(project, current_user, @push_data)
    SystemHooksService.new.execute_hooks(build_system_push_data.dup, :tag_push_hooks)
    project.execute_hooks(@push_data.dup, :tag_push_hooks)
    project.execute_services(@push_data.dup, :tag_push_hooks)
    CreateCommitBuildsService.new.execute(project, current_user, @push_data)
    ProjectCacheWorker.perform_async(project.id)

    true
  end

  private

  def build_push_data
    commits = []
    message = nil

    unless Gitlab::Git.blank_ref?(params[:newrev])
      tag_name = Gitlab::Git.ref_name(params[:ref])
      tag = project.repository.find_tag(tag_name)

      if tag && tag.object_sha == params[:newrev]
        commit = project.commit(tag.target)
        commits = [commit].compact
        message = tag.message
      end
    end

    Gitlab::PushDataBuilder.
      build(project, current_user, params[:oldrev], params[:newrev], params[:ref], commits, message)
  end

  def build_system_push_data
    Gitlab::PushDataBuilder.
      build(project, current_user, params[:oldrev], params[:newrev], params[:ref], [], '')
  end
end


YET ANOTHER failed prediction from the catastrophic climate change cabal!
Polar bear experts who falsely predicted that roughly 17,300 polar bearswould be dead by now (given sea ice conditions since 2007) have realized their failure has not only kicked their own credibility to the curb, it has taken with it the reputations of their climate change colleagues. This has left many folks unhappy about the toppling of this important global warming icon but ironically, consensus polar bear experts and climate scientists (and their supporters) were the ones who set up the polar bear as a proxy for AGW in the first place.


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WINRT_EXPORT namespace winrt {

namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation {

#ifndef WINRT_GENERIC_cdb5efb3_5788_509d_9be1_71ccb8a3362a
#define WINRT_GENERIC_cdb5efb3_5788_509d_9be1_71ccb8a3362a
template <> struct __declspec(uuid("cdb5efb3-5788-509d-9be1-71ccb8a3362a")) __declspec(novtable) IAsyncOperation<bool> : impl_IAsyncOperation<bool> {};
#endif

}

namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation::Collections {

#ifndef WINRT_GENERIC_e2fcc7c1_3bfc_5a0b_b2b0_72e769d1cb7e
#define WINRT_GENERIC_e2fcc7c1_3bfc_5a0b_b2b0_72e769d1cb7e
template <> struct __declspec(uuid("e2fcc7c1-3bfc-5a0b-b2b0-72e769d1cb7e")) __declspec(novtable) IIterable<hstring> : impl_IIterable<hstring> {};
#endif

}

namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation {

#ifndef WINRT_GENERIC_c1d3d1a2_ae17_5a5f_b5a2_bdcc8844889a
#define WINRT_GENERIC_c1d3d1a2_ae17_5a5f_b5a2_bdcc8844889a
template <> struct __declspec(uuid("c1d3d1a2-ae17-5a5f-b5a2-bdcc8844889a")) __declspec(novtable) AsyncOperationCompletedHandler<bool> : impl_AsyncOperationCompletedHandler<bool> {};
#endif

}

namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation::Collections {

#ifndef WINRT_GENERIC_8c304ebb_6615_50a4_8829_879ecd443236
#define WINRT_GENERIC_8c304ebb_6615_50a4_8829_879ecd443236
template <> struct __declspec(uuid("8c304ebb-6615-50a4-8829-879ecd443236")) __declspec(novtable) IIterator<hstring> : impl_IIterator<hstring> {};
#endif

}

namespace Windows::ApplicationModel::CommunicationBlocking {

template <typename D>
struct WINRT_EBO impl_ICommunicationBlockingAccessManagerStatics
{
    bool IsBlockingActive() const;
    Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<bool> IsBlockedNumberAsync(hstring_ref number) const;
    bool ShowBlockNumbersUI(const Windows::Foundation::Collections::IIterable<hstring> & phoneNumbers) const;
    bool ShowUnblockNumbersUI(const Windows::Foundation::Collections::IIterable<hstring> & phoneNumbers) const;
    void ShowBlockedCallsUI() const;
    void ShowBlockedMessagesUI() const;
};

template <typename D>
struct WINRT_EBO impl_ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics
{
    bool IsCurrentAppActiveBlockingApp() const;
    void ShowCommunicationBlockingSettingsUI() const;
};

template <typename D>
struct WINRT_EBO impl_ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2
{
    Windows::Foundation::IAsyncOperation<bool> RequestSetAsActiveBlockingAppAsync() const;
};

struct ICommunicationBlockingAccessManagerStatics :
    Windows::IInspectable,
    impl::consume<ICommunicationBlockingAccessManagerStatics>
{
    ICommunicationBlockingAccessManagerStatics(std::nullptr_t = nullptr) noexcept {}
    auto operator->() const noexcept { return ptr<ICommunicationBlockingAccessManagerStatics>(m_ptr); }
};

struct ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics :
    Windows::IInspectable,
    impl::consume<ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics>
{
    ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics(std::nullptr_t = nullptr) noexcept {}
    auto operator->() const noexcept { return ptr<ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics>(m_ptr); }
};

struct ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2 :
    Windows::IInspectable,
    impl::consume<ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2>,
    impl::require<ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2, Windows::ApplicationModel::CommunicationBlocking::ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics>
{
    ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2(std::nullptr_t = nullptr) noexcept {}
    auto operator->() const noexcept { return ptr<ICommunicationBlockingAppManagerStatics2>(m_ptr); }
};

}

}


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Q: How to make new dataframe of every second or third id with Python Pandas? I have a data frame, with id, username, and date.  I sorted the data frame by id.
How to make new data frames, that contains every second or third id?
Here is my code where I made a Data Frame and I sorted it by id:
import pandas as pd

id = ['11', '11', '11', '15', '15', '15', '23', '23', '25']
username = ['usera','userb','userc','userd','usere','userf','userd','usere','userf']
date = ['2021-05-04','2021-05-05','2021-05-05','2021-05-06','2021-06-07','2021-06-08','2021-07-09','2021-03-09','2021-04-10']

df = pd.DataFrame({'id': id, 'username': username, 'date': date})

dx = df.sort_values(by=['id'], ignore_index=True) #Sort because the dataframe not sorted. by default
print(dx)

Here is some expected output:

  #dx = get every second value
   id username        date
0  11    usera  2021-05-04
1  11    userb  2021-05-05
2  11    userc  2021-05-05

6  23    userd  2021-07-09
7  23    usere  2021-03-09
....

# Get every third by id:

  id username        date
0  11    usera  2021-05-04
1  11    userb  2021-05-05
2  11    userc  2021-05-05
8  25    userf  2021-04-10
.....

In my task the user names and the rows here are not relevant, just the id's.
I need to get every second or third id in the same dataframe.

A: You could groupby the cumcount of the groups and transform to dict:
dfs = dict(list(df.groupby(df.groupby('id').cumcount().add(1))))

output:
{1:    id username        date
 0  11    usera  2021-05-04
 3  15    userd  2021-05-06
 6  23    userd  2021-07-09
 8  25    userf  2021-04-10,
 2:    id username        date
 1  11    userb  2021-05-05
 4  15    usere  2021-06-07
 7  23    usere  2021-03-09,
 3:    id username        date
 2  11    userc  2021-05-05
 5  15    userf  2021-06-08}

Then each value in the dfs dictionary is a sub dataframe:
>>> dfs[1] # 1st occurence
   id username        date
0  11    usera  2021-05-04
3  15    userd  2021-05-06
6  23    userd  2021-07-09
8  25    userf  2021-04-10

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12 Notorious Murder Cases That Tore Hollywood Apart
|In FAMOUS, MURDER, WTF
12 Notorious Murder Cases That Tore Hollywood Apart –
When we think of Hollywood, we think of beautiful celebrities, red carpets, flashing lights, money, and movie sets. However, there's a seedy underbelly to Hollywood that arouses flashes of scandal, corruption, harassment, and blood.
All too often, Tinseltown has been home to a series of grizzly murders that almost tore the city apart. There have been dozens of horrific murder cases that sent the media into a frenzy, put celebrities on edge, and revealed the city to be far more twisted than we ever expected.
Sometimes a massive celebrity is killed in cold blood, and sometimes it's the celebrity themselves doing the killing. Hollywood's dalliances in the macabre can be succinctly encapsulated with the infamous quote from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, "We all go a little mad sometimes".
12. Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur is a hip-hop legend, and therefore synonymous with music. However, alongside his boundary-crossing stardom, Tupac did indeed appear in a handful of movies and was considered an up-and-comer in Hollywood.
The rapper was infamously shot four times on September 7th, 1996, while sitting at a red light on a Las Vegas street, and died 6 days later from the injuries.
Shakur's death sent shockwaves throughout the entire world, not just the hip-hop scene. While no-one was charged for the murder, it was assumed to be the result of the intercoastal rap rivalry, of which Tupac and Notorious B.I.G were the figureheads.
The murder reminded stars that nobody was untouchable, and that senseless rivalries often leads to senseless violence.
11. Bob Crane
Bob Crane rose to fame in the 1960's as part of the World War II sit-com, Hogan's Heroes. The show ran for six years and Crane became a popular figure as a result. His career following Hogan's Heroes was middling, to say the least until it abruptly ended with his death in 1978.
On June 29th 1978, Victoria Ann Berry, a co-star of Crane's, went to his apartment in Scottsdale Arizona after he failed to show up for work. Berry found Crane dead, with his head bludgeoned and an electrical cord tied around his neck.
The Scottsdale Police Department was said to be ill-equipped to deal with such a high-profile murder investigation and, as such, yielded very few clues from the crime scene. That said, they found a variety of tapes Crane had recorded of himself and a friend, John Henry Carpenter's, sexual encounters with women.
After several back-and-forths, the case was re-opened in 1990 and Crane was arrested two years later. Despite Crane's son testifying against Carpenter, the evidence was deemed circumstantial and he was acquitted (yet died four years later).
To this day Bob Crane's murder has gone unsolved and will stay that way. Proving money and fame cannot guarantee justice.
10. Lana Clarkson
Concorde Pictures
Lana Clarkson is a name that likely does not ring any bells. Clarkson was something of a B-Movie actress but she appeared in such hits as Fast Times At Ridgemont High and Scarface.
Sadly, Clarkson's true claim-to-fame is her untimely death in February 2003. She had been dating record producer Phil Spector, who worked with industry greats like Tina Turner and The Beatles. In two foreboding instances, the Ramones claimed Spector pulled a gun on them during a recording session, and four women made a similar claim in regards to Spector demanding sexual favours.
Clarkson and Spector had been dropped off at his Hollywood home by his driver, Adriano de Souza. Soon after, Spector came running out the back of the house, gun in hand, stating "I think I've killed someone". And indeed, Clarkson had been shot in the mouth and killed. Souza called the police and Spector was arrested.
Amazingly, the 2007 court case was deemed a mistrial, thanks to a hung jury. Two years later the re-trial occurred and Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder, sentenced to 19 years in prison. Perhaps a fitting end for the man who once claimed, "They [women] all deserve a bullet in their head".
9. Rebecca Schaeffer
The case of little-known actress Rebecca Schaeffer may not be as high-profile as the others on this list, but it tells a chilling tale that no doubt reaffirmed the fears of many celebrities.
Schaeffer was a 21-year-old, who had been acting for a mere five years when she was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, right on her front doorstep. Bardo was a 19-year-old manic depressive, who had began stalking Schaeffer for three years.
Bardo was outraged when he saw Schaeffer share a bed with a man in the movie, Scenes from the Class Struggles in Beverly Hills. He paid a private detective to find her address, then bought a gun with the help of his older brother.
Bardo drove to Schaeffer's Los Angeles home, knocked on her door, and had a brief talk in which the actress asked him never to come again. He left, got some breakfast, then returned to her home. This time, when she answered the door, he shot her at point-blank-range in the chest.
Schaeffer died shortly thereafter and Bardo was arrested. This horrifying case is a reminder of the dangers stalkers pose to celebrities, and the need for serious security and privacy.
8. William Desmond Taylor
William D Taylor Productions
William Desmond Taylor was a pioneer of Hollywood from 1913 to 1922. In his relatively short career, Taylor acted in 27 and directed 59 silent films, which included Anne of Green Gables and Huckleberry Finn.
In 1922, at the age of 49, Taylor was found dead in his Los Angeles home. In a baffling side note, a medical examiner arrived at the scene and announced that Taylor had died of a stomach haemorrhage, then left. Shorty thereafter, forensic investigators arrived, and turned over the body to find a bullet hole in Taylor's back.
Taylor was found with over $1000 (adjusted) in his wallet and rings on his fingers, implying robbery was not the motive. What followed was a media circus attempting to decipher the case, with various celebrities giving questionable interviews. The L.A. Undersheriff went as far as to say, "The industry has been hurt. Stars have been ruined. Stockholders have lost millions of dollars. A lot of people are out of jobs and incensed enough to take a shot at you."
Despite there being a dozen suspects, no-one was ever charged with the murder due to circumstantial evidence, a disturbed crime scene, and even claims of corruption. A story befitting of Tinseltown.
7. Dorothy Stratten
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In British Columbia Canada, 1977, 17-year-old Dorothy Stratten met a 26-year-old local pimp by the name of Paul Snider. The two had been dating for a short while when Snider paid for some professional nude photos of Stratten and sent them to Playboy magazine – even though Stratten was underage.
In 1978, Stratten and Snider moved to L.A., where they married and she became an official Playmate. Hugh Hefner saw huge potential in Stratten and aimed to make her a movie star, as well as Playmate of the Year in 1980. Hefner, and peers, encouraged Stratten to sever ties with Snider but she was reluctant.
Instead, she began having an affair with the director of her first starring role, Peter Bogdanovich. Shortly thereafter, Stratten separated from Snider and moved in with Bogdanovich. She then met with Snider to discuss divorce settlements at his L.A. apartment.
Snider's roommates returned home and found the two, naked, and dead in his bedroom. Snider had killed Stratten with a shotgun, then shot himself an hour later. The up-and-coming star was murdered at the age of just 20 and Hollywood was rocked.
6. Sal Mineo
On February 12th, 1976, Sal Mineo was stabbed through the heart in an alley behind his apartment building. Local pizza deliveryman, Lionel Ray Williams, was found guilty and sentenced to 57 years in prison.
Mineo was a New York actor famous for roles in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Exodus, and Rebel Without A Cause. Mineo was also bisexual and celebrated as a gay icon following his death.
So what prompted a pizza deliveryman to kill the Oscar-nominated actor? That much has never been revealed. Initially the case went unsolved for two years, by which time Williams was in prison in Michigan for robbery. He was allegedly overheard bragging about killing Sal Mineo, so was transferred to Los Angeles, where he stood trial for said murder. Williams was found guilty of second degree murder. He was paroled in 1990 after eleven years… only to commit robbery and go back to jail.
Mineo was a beloved actor, nominated for an Academy Award, and portrayed the first openly-gay teen in film; yet was said to have been blackballed by a homophobic system in Hollywood. His senseless murder only reaffirmed his status as underappreciated and gone-too-soon.
5. Natalie Wood
Alongside James Dean and the previously mentioned Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood made up the famed trilogy of Rebel Without A Cause. All three stars were killed in horrible circumstances, leading to the movie being dubbed as cursed.
Wood had an incredible career in Hollywood, from the 1950's right through to her death in 1981. She had been married, twice, to fellow actor Robert Wagner, with whom she had a child. Nine years after re-marrying Wagner, the couple, along with Christopher Walken and Dennis Davern, went on a boat ride.
The next morning, authorities found Wood's body in the ocean, a mile away from the boat. A dinghy was found on a nearby beech, which Wagner and co. claimed she must have taken during the night. Wood was found to have been drunk and on medication when she drowned. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning, despite bruises on her arms and cheek.
30 years later however, Davern, the boat captain, said he lied in the original interview. He claimed Wagner had thrown Wood overboard after catching her flirting with Walken. While Wagner was never charged, the cause of death was changed to reflect the uncertainty. A story befitting of the Rebel curse.
4. Phil Hartman
Hi! This one's Phil Hartman. You may know him best from his roles in Jingle All The Way, So I Married An Axe Murderer and The Simpsons.
Hartman was an Ontario native who started his career with skits on Pee-Wee Herman, a character he helped create, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, and a number of animated shows, including Scooby-Doo.
From there, his career blossomed and he appeared on Saturday Night Live before striking gold with The Simpsons (in which he played Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz), and various movies. Hartman's career was seemingly really hitting the ground when it came to a crashing halt.
Hartman was married to Brynn Omdahl in the late 80's, and the pair sired two children. Brynn developed a drug problem during the marriage and, on one fateful night in 1998, Phil told her he would divorce her if she took drugs again. A few hours later Brynn, high on cocaine, grabbed a .38 handgun and shot Hartman twice in the head and once in the side, while he slept.
That same night Brynn shot herself, leaving their two children parentless and Hollywood speechless. A horrible fate for a beloved actor.
3. Nicole Brown Simpson
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Nicole Brown Simpson was the wife of O.J. Simpson, a retired football player who had transitioned into acting, and became a household name throughout the 1970's. The pair were together for seven years, during which time he was arrested and pleaded guilty to abuse. The beatings continued even after the couple divorced in 1992, despite Brown having moved to another home in L.A.
On the morning of June 13, 1994, Brown was found dead outside of her home, along with a waiter by the name of Ron Goldman. Brown had been stabbed seven times in the neck and head, to the point where she was almost decapitated. What followed was the most infamous court case in history, as O.J. Simpson stood trial for the murder of his ex-wife and her lover.
Despite substantial evidence that pointed to Simpson's guilt, he was acquitted. The world watched with bated breath and the outcome divided America. That wasn't the end of Simpsons legal troubles however, as he later served 9 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping.
Of course, Simpson cashed-in on the scandal with a 2007 book titled, If I Did It but his career never rebounded and doubts over his innocence persist.
2. Elizabeth Short
Elizabeth Short is better known as Black Dahlia, one of the most famous murder victims of all-time.
Short moved to Los Angeles from Boston, with the hopes of becoming a Hollywood starlet. Cliche as that may sound, Short is where the stereotype originated and the reason why so many starlets were warned not to run to Hollywood in search of fame. Short, like so many before and after her, fell victim to empty promises, casting couches, and the darker side of Hollywood.
On the morning of January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short was found dead, just by the side of the road. Her naked body was cut in half, her intestines removed, her blood drained, and her mouth cut ear-to-ear. She had been murdered, cut, washed, and brought to the location and posed to be found. The killer subsequently mailed letters to L.A. newspapers, taunting them to find him.
750 investigators worked on the case for over a year but it was deemed a cold case. To this day, Short's murder has gone unsolved and been adapted into various films and books. The story has fascinated people for 70 years, and the tragedy changed Hollywood forever.
1. Sharon Tate
The murder of Sharon Tate is one of the most infamous in world history, and unlike anything heard of in Hollywood before or since.
Tate was a popular up-and-coming actress who married director Roman Polanski in 1986. While eight months pregnant with their first child, Tate and four others were brutally murdered by the Manson family.
The Manson family members were arrested and claimed the identities of the victims were not relevant. Manson himself had been rejected by a record producer who once lived at the same address as Tate and Polanski, and he directed four of his followers to head to the home and murder whoever was inside.
Hollywood was stunned by the murders, as best described by Dominick Dunne in his book, The Way We Lived Then, "The shock waves that went through the town were beyond anything I had ever seen before. People were convinced that the rich and famous of the community were in peril. Children were sent out of town. Guards were hired. Steve McQueen packed a gun when he went to Jay Sebring's funeral."
The months and years that followed were shaped by the murders as Hollywood realised no-one was ever truly safe.
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Pearl - the gem a symbol of purity, brightness, richness, light and femininity ( see also the diamond tattoo. ). It has pale glow and is associated with the full moon (see. Moon tattoo ) and water (see. Water element tattoo ).Deep under water has got a grain of sand in the sink closed from prying eyes half shell and turns into a pearl for several years. Pearl - a special rarity, it is noble and pure in order to get it you need to perform the feat, to get it from the seabed.
There are many different variants of tattoos with pearls.Here for example are some of them : Opened sea shell with white pearl, dragon holding in one paw pearl mermaid holding in one hand a pearl, sea king Poseidon contemplates pearl.
Pearls were first mentioned in the literature of ancient China and India (see Indian tattoos. ) ;Indian Vedic literature says that about pearls on a peninsula known before 1500 BC. e. It is significant that among the Egyptian and the same Greek jewelery repeatedly detected gems framed by pearls.The troops of Alexander the Great were taken to Mediterranean countries a large number of pearls from India and Persia. Even more common was the pearls in the II and I centuries. BC. e. The most valuable is the pearl of India - for their beautiful color, for an incomparable shine.Masters of that time tried to give pearls of lower quality from other locations shine Oriental Pearl - something managed by polishing, something not possible - but it has led to the fact that the value of the jewels fell slightly. But those who were from the East. The special luster and perfect roundness of the forms were not only honors this pearl,but also a symbol of perfection. For mystics jewel in those days it seemed ennobling old primitive, in fact, the animals (see. Tattoos and animals ).


The Eight of Cups tarot card in the psychic readings is a card of uncertainties that is not positive when in the upright position as it was built on static symbolism and doubles the number eight; a substantially good balance, but that does not exclude the start of a difficult situation. Its polarity depends largely on combinations with neighbouring cards, the influence of which are very sensitive.
This tarot card shows to the clairvoyant that a moment of planning has arrived for the querent which might bring marriage. It can also signal a meeting, a lightning strike or a relationship, an engagement or just reciprocated affection. Good opportunities are in the cards in employment and business. Close to negative cards, however, it changes polarity, signalling no more serenity and satisfaction, but the need to wait to make changes in one's life and to accept the present situation. It can also show changes in relationships, jealousy, restlessness, incompatibility, unwelcome surprises, a dual relationship, a forbidden love, rivalry, deceit.
The Eight of Cups reversed tarot card in the psychic readings usually show to the clairvoyant that someone close to the querent or the querent The card usually brings good signals of joy, satisfaction, and hope. The consultant can expect a peaceful coexistence, a rebalancing in the relationship after a fit of jealousy, perseverance in pursuit of the goal. Cheer, parties, shows, entertainment insured. A repair, a reward, just recognition of the wrongs and merits.


Efficiency is important in a dental profession as much as it is for any other field. It requires that you have the best possible practices in place. It also means having an office support system in the form of computer and server that is customized to the dental field. Such systems are what will ensure that you have a smooth sailing practice.
There are several specialized organizations that will offer you solutions that are tailored to your dental practice. This means that all your needs in terms of software as well as hardware will be taken care of. If you already have a dental system in place but would like to upgrade it, then there are several options for you to choose from. Rest assured, they will all work towards improving the way your office functions.
If you choose to have a management software, then you will obviously need a dental server to run it. This ensures that all goes smoothly. Once installed all your reports will be easily entered and filed and can be called up at the touch of a button. This ensures systematic organization in your office which is essential to the smooth functioning of any practice. The quality of the software you choose will also ensure that you experience the least amount of downtime if any.
When you decide on a software to use, make sure that you are getting one that will be able to cater to the volume of patients you anticipate. Else you could end up with a clinic full of patients who are not able to get to you simply because the software is unable to process and get them ready for you. The software is not where you want to scrimp and save a few dollars.
When you approach a dental server and solutions company, you have to make sure that they are available round the clock to handle any queries that you have. They should be easily approachable if you have any requirements at all. Time is of essence when it comes to the support team. Being able to touch base with them via SMS, phone and email is the best you can ask for. Good service providers will ensure that if a problem cannot be resolved on the telephone, an experienced service engineer will be you within a day. In fact the faster they get to you the better their chances of scoring high in your book.
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No matter what kind of business you are in, having a specialized PC will help you make the most of your profession in a very efficient manner. The same goes with a Dental PC. What you can do with your dental PC is have it take care of all your practice management. This also means that it inputs digital x-rays without causing any trouble. The reports can be generated and filed away instantly.
When you have patients waiting in line, you can have their history pop up install. Your office will run smoother thanks to the efficiency of the Dental PC and it will free up your staff to be more productive with their time at the office.
All dental PCs come with the latest of technology and don't really require sophisticated hardware to make them function at their best. In fact, the software that these PCs run on is customized to a dental office's requirements and so almost everything that you think of in terms of get your work done, will be take care of.
The support team that you have for your dental PC is very important. They have to be an experienced and efficient team that allows you to suffer through minimum amount of down time. Look for services that send over technicians instantly, try to resolve your problems on the phone first and then move on to solving the issue within a day's notice latest. These are the kind of back end support services that will ensure your office works like well oiled machinery. It would be best if you could find a dental PC support system that was just a phone call or even a SMS away. This shows you their level of dedication and ensures that you have someone attending to you at the earliest. Those that work on weekends should be given a high priority on your list.
When you invest in a dental PC, here is what you should be getting – a professional dental-based server with the necessary software and hardware support. It should be responsive to your every need. Check the warranty period on the hardware and make sure that it's a minimum of 3 years. When it comes to the service team, their work should have a month's warranty as well that on the labor involved. It should be a system that is open to upgrade and has the latest in it at all times.
Like any business, dentistry too needs the assistance of a software like Dentrix to help improve efficiency at work. When you are efficient in discharging your job, profits are bound to roll in. The software is a market leader in terms of management solutions for the dentistry profession. The technology that it uses allows an individual to blend productivity and profitability successfully. There is yet to a worthy competitor to the software to come onto the scene.
As part of the process of improving efficiency, Dentrix gives you the added benefit of e-services. This simulates the presence of a front office, allowing your staff to be free for more pressing and important matters. Jobs such as data entry, patient history records, sending of reminders to patients and the like are simply and efficiently taken care of. Even the tedious task of processing payment receipts and insurance claims too is taken care of by the software.
When you choose to invest in this software, you are sure to enhance the functioning of your office. Once installed you will have to familiarize yourself with the various features it comes with so that you make maximum use of what it has to offer. There are of course chances that you will run into some technical snags or have some doubts. At this time, having good Dentrix support is of vital importance.
A Dentrix support works at troubleshooting any issues that you may have in the shortest possible time. This means that you are able to function efficiently in a short time. When you are evaluating Dentrix support teams there are a few factors you will need to look into. The speed of response, especially in relation to critical issues is important. Look for those who have same-day assistance as well as those who handle an issue within a day. A good support company will of course first try and resolve your complaint on the phone itself making things all the more easier.
Once you have chosen your service provider, call them over and look at how they function. Assess whether you are satisfied with their performance. Supervise the way they assess a problem and go about resolving it. Test their knowledge and ask them questions, even if you know the answers to them. Always call on them for upgrades to make sure that you have the latest that the software has to offer.
The best way to ensure that you get a good price is to approach a Dentrix support team that offers you flat rates for a big project and hourly rates for smaller jobs. You know you have a good support team when they ask for a payment to be cleared after the problem has been taken care of.


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Guvernementet Minsk var ett guvernement i Kejsardömet Ryssland åren 1793-1921. Det gränsade till Vilna, Vitebsk och Mohilev i norr och öster samt
Tjernigov, Kiev, Volynien och Grodno i söder och väster.

Guvernementet bestod av två olika delar:
den nordvästra, ett högland mellan Njemens och Dneprs flodområden, upptagande en femtedel av arealen och bestående av tertiära bildningar (merendels lerjord), samt den sydöstra delen, fyra femtedelar av arealen, som bildade ett av stora skogar och kärr betäckt lågland,
kallat poljesje, ur vilket här och där sandkullar uppsteg liksom öar. Tillsammans upptog kärr och sumpiga skogar ej mindre än 40 procent av Minsks hela areal (60–70 procent i somliga kretsar), och endast omkring 23 procent var odlad jord. Klimatet var ganska strängt och ohälsosamt.

Kommunikationerna var mycket bristfälliga. Järnvägen från Polen till Moskva följde ovannämnda högland förbi huvudstaden Minsk, och en annan går från Libau till Ukraina även förbi staden Minsk. Två stora bifloder till Dnjepr:
Beresina och Pripet, båda segelbara, med en mängd tillflöden, av vilka flera också var segelbara,
var naturliga avlopp för kärren. Genom kanaler hade man också torrlagt en del av dessa. Dnjepr flöt längs sydöstra gränsen, Njemen på den nordvästra. De till
Östersjön flytande Düna och Weichsel var genom tre kanaler förenade med Dnjeprs bifloder.

Guvernementets befolkning, 2 813 400 (1910), bestod av vitryssar,
omkring 71 procent, polacker, omkring 12 procent, judar,
omkring 16 procent ukrainare och ryssar, därjämte
litauer, tatarer och tyskar. Guvernementet var beläget inom det judiska bosättningsområdet i Kejsardömet Ryssland.

Jordbruk var jämte skogsavverkning huvudnäring. Binäringar var jakt,
fiske, biskötsel och timmerflottning. Industrin var obetydlig. 1884 indelades guvernementet i 9 kretsar (ujezd): Babrujsk, Borisov, Igumen, Minsk, Mozyr, Novogrudok, Pinsk, Retjitsa, Slutsk.

Guvernementet utgjorde kärnan i det som blev Vitryska SSR i Sovjetunionen 1919 och delades senare upp på flera olika voblaster.

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Home / World News / Sri Lanka's president, cabinet to resign
Sri Lanka's president, cabinet to resign
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Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the entire cabinet will resign to make way for a unity government, the prime minister's office says, after tens of thousands of protesters stormed the official residences of both men.
After Saturday's sweeping protests in the wake of a debilitating economic crisis, the speaker of parliament said Rajapaksa would resign on Wednesday. However, there has been no direct word from Rajapaksa on his plans.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he would also step down to allow an all-party interim government to take over.
Wickremesinghe's office said Rajapaksa had confirmed his resignation plans to the prime minister, adding that the entire cabinet would resign once a deal was reached to form an all-party government.
The political instability could hurt the country's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package, the central bank governor told Reuters in an interview.
Governor P. Nandalal Weerasinghe signalled he would stay on in the job although he had said in May he could resign if there was no political stability in the island nation of 22 million.
Asked if he would continue to steer the central bank, Weerasinghe said: "I have the responsibility once I have been appointed to serve for (a) six-year term."
Leaders of the protest movement have said crowds would keep occupying the residences of the president and prime minister in Colombo until they finally quit office. Over the weekend at the president's house, protesters jumped into the swimming pool, lounged on a four-poster bed, jostled for turns on a treadmill and tried out the sofas.
Colombo was calm on Monday as hundreds of people strolled into the president's secretariat and residence and toured the colonial-era buildings. Police made no attempt to stop anyone.
"We are not going anywhere till this president leaves and we have a government that is acceptable to the people," said Jude Hansana, 31, who has been at a protest site outside the residence since early April.
Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe were not in their residences when the protesters surged into the buildings and have not been seen in public since Friday.
Wickremesinghe's private home in an affluent Colombo suburb was set on fire on Saturday, and three suspects have been arrested, police have said.
Constitutional experts say once the president and prime minister formally resign, the next step would be for the speaker to be appointed as acting president and for parliament to vote for a new president within 30 days to complete Rajapaksa's term that was to end in 2024.
Ordinary Sri Lankans have mainly blamed Rajapaksa for the collapse of the tourism-dependent economy, which was hammered badly by the COVID-19 pandemic and a ban on chemical fertilisers that damaged farm output. The ban was later reversed.
Government finances were crippled by mounting debt and lavish tax breaks given by the Rajapaksa regime. Foreign exchange reserves were quickly depleted as oil prices rose.
The country barely has any dollars left to import fuel, which has been severely rationed, and long lines have formed in front of shops selling cooking gas. Headline inflation in the country of 22 million hit 54.6 per cent last month, and the central bank has warned that it could rise to 70 per cent in the coming months.
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Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie är en kommun i departementet Lot i regionen Occitanien i södra Frankrike. Kommunen ligger i kantonen Livernon som tillhör arrondissementet Figeac. År  hade Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie  invånare.

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NASA Pushes for Moon, Deep Space with Crucial Tests
By Sarah Lewin
Artist's illustration of NASA's Orion spacecraft launching aboard its Space Launch System rocket. Orion will loop around the moon for the first time during Exploration Mission-1, currently targeted for the end of 2019. (Image credit: NASA)
With the moon as its immediate goal, NASA is pushing hard on deep space exploration.
In a press conference from Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston today (April 26), NASA officials talked through the status of their deep space exploration program and the upcoming launches of the agency's Orion spacecraft around the moon.
A NASA report last year suggested the launch date could slip to June 2020. However, JSC Director Ellen Ochoa confirmed that NASA is still pushing to use the massive Space Launch System to send Orion around the moon for the first time, on the uncrewed Exploration Mission-1, by the end of 2019.
"Launch [is] hopefully at the end of 2019. That is the goal we're keeping toward," Ochoa said at the press conference. "We've done an in-depth assessment of that, and likely it will be in early 2020, but we are keeping pressure on our agency and our folks to try and launch in December of 2019, to make sure that we put our best foot forward and do our best to meet those deadlines." [How the Orion Space Capsule Works (Infographic)]
EM-1, the spacecraft for that first test flight, is already being assembled at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Ochoa said, and awaiting the European Service Module, which should arrive at the center this summer. (That module will sit below the Orion spacecraft, with the abort system attached above.) In the meantime, EM-2 — the spacecraft for the second Orion flight, and Orion's first crewed mission around the moon — is already being assembled at the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. It will make its way to Florida later in the summer.
Before EM-1 — almost exactly a year from today, Ochoa said — NASA will test the spacecraft's abort system after a launch to a point more than 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) high in a short, but intensive test called Ascent Abort-2.
"It's just a 3-minute test, but it will be an exciting 3 minutes," Ochoa said.
Once Orion has reached the moon, NASA plans to spend a significant amount of time there honing systems and creating an orbiting outpost called the Deep Space Gateway, according to Vanessa Wyche, director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate at NASA.
"Building on the transportation elements being developed today, the Space Launch System and Orion … and using the International Space Station as a platform to test technologies in LEO [low Earth orbit], we're working with commercial industry and our international partners to build and assemble a crew-tended spaceport in orbit around the moon in the 2020s," Wyche said at the conference. "NASA and its partners will use the Gateway for deep-space operations including missions on the moon with decreasing reliance on Earth.
"We'll use the lunar orbit as a place to stage where we'll actually build up a small, crew-tended spaceport that will then do testing. We will learn about what's going on at the moon. We'll do testing on the moon's surface, and then we will build up, do other testing and move on to Mars," she added.
Wyche said that NASA will learn much more about the moon in the coming decade, not just through the Orion program. The agency's Science Mission Directorate will open an opportunity for people to evaluate samples brought back from the moon on Apollo missions that haven't previously been analyzed, taking advantage of modern technology to analyze the samples more deeply. NASA will send more robotic missions to the moon to learn about its surface. And the Gateway will enable communications for missions to the moon's far side, allowing for more in-depth investigations in that less-explored area, Wyche said. [NASA Shapes Science Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon]
"For a few years, we've been really planning to spend the decade of the 2020s in the lunar vicinity anyway, because we believe there's a lot we need to test and learn before we actually head to Mars," Ochoa added. "As we do spend time around the moon and on the moon, a lot of what we're thinking about is what it is that we need to accomplish there in order to move on to Mars after that."
But before that, the teams will have to finalize Orion, get EM-1 launched and then launch EM-2, sending humans on a loop around the moon that will take them farther than people have ever traveled into space — 40,000 miles (64,000 km) past the moon.
Near the end of the conference, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott shared some of her experiences working with the nitty-gritty testing that will make sure Orion and its procedures work.
"Right now, we're doing a lot of the testing where I would be in a suit and with four crewmembers, we're strapped in to [a mock-up of] Orion," she said. "And we have a smoke machine, and they set off smoke, and they close the hatch. We're looking at, can we get out of this vehicle? How are we going to unstrap? How is the flow of us getting out?"
Just last week, Stott said, they tested escaping from the docking hatch at the top of Orion in the event that the side hatch is inaccessible; a ladder came down that they had to climb up after throwing rafts out of the vehicle's top.
"You can put all that in a very detailed plan, and the engineers do a great job of developing that … [but] human-in-the-loop testing and finding those things that you didn't think about because you have humans involved in this expedition is critical in the early development of this program," she said.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
Sarah Lewin
Sarah Lewin started writing for Space.com in June of 2015 as a Staff Writer and became Associate Editor in 2019 . Her work has been featured by Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, Wired, The Scientist, Science Friday and WGBH's Inside NOVA. Sarah has an MA from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and an AB in mathematics from Brown University. When not writing, reading or thinking about space, Sarah enjoys musical theatre and mathematical papercraft. She is currently Assistant News Editor at Scientific American. You can follow her on Twitter @SarahExplains.
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