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Paccini Wins Elon's Fifth CAA Men's Tennis Player of the Week Honor
Posted by Press Release on March 26, 2019 at 2:17 pm under College | Comments are off for this article
RICHMOND, Va. – Elon University men's tennis senior Mario Paccini has been named the CAA Player of the Week on Tuesday, March 26, after finished unbeaten in singles play during Elon's 3-0 week of victories over USC Upstate, Winthrop and College of Charleston.
Paccini claimed his second-career CAA Player of the Week honor by going a perfect 3-0 at the No. 2 singles position for the Phoenix. With his three victories, Paccini improves his overall singles record to 11-7 this season and has now won four straight singles matches. He is also 7-3 in singles action over his last 10 matches.
The Madrid, Spain native began the week with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Francisco Neto of USC Upstate on Thursday to clinch Elon's 7-0 shutout win against the Spartans at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center. He then kicked off singles action in Elon's 4-1 win against Winthrop on Friday with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Connor Williamson, putting the Phoenix in front 2-0 in the match. The senior then rounded out the week cruising to a 6-3, 6-4 win against College of Charleston's Easton Thomas to give the Phoenix a 3-1 lead in Elon's 6-1 victory over the Cougars.
Additionally, he teamed up with fellow senior Felipe Sarrasague at the No. 1 doubles position and went 2-0 in doubles during the week. The duo's match against College of Charleston went unfinished after the doubles point was clinched. Elon improved its overall record to 15-4 with the three wins and is now 3-1 this season against CAA teams after defeating CofC.
Elon has now won five CAA Men's Tennis Player of the Week awards from the league this season. Felipe Osses-Konig and Kyle Frankelhave also been tabbed with the award, while Sarrasague has received the accolade twice this year.
Following an extended break, the Phoenix returns to action on Saturday, April 6, hosting Gardner-Webb at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center. The matchup between the Phoenix and the Runnin' Bulldogs is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.
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Google threatens to ban French media if pay-for-content law enacted
PARIS (AFP) - Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from its search results if France implements a proposed law forcing search engines to pay for content, according to a letter obtained by AFP.
The letter sent by Google to several ministerial offices this month said it "cannot accept" such a move and the company "as a consequence would be required to no longer reference French sites."
It said such a law, which would require Google to make payments to media sites for displaying links to their content, would "threaten (Google's) very existence".
It also noted that Google "redirects four billion 'clicks' per month towards the Internet pages" of French media.
Leading French newspaper publishers last month called on the government to adopt a law to force Internet search engines such as Google to pay for content.
They said a law should impose a settlement in the long-running dispute with Google, which receives high volumes of advertising revenue from user searches for news contained on media websites.
Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti told a parliamentary commission this week that she was in favour of the idea, calling it "a tool that it seems important to me to develop".
Google France said earlier that it believed such a law "would be harmful to the Internet, Internet users and news websites that benefit from substantial traffic" sent to them by Google's search engine.
Newspapers around the world have seen their bottom lines come under pressure as their print advertising revenues slide and online readers resist paying for access when so much content is free on the Internet.
French lawmakers last year rejected plans for a tax on online advertising revenues, fearing the project would hurt small local companies more than global Internet giants like Google, Facebook or Twitter.
Google France representatives are to meet Friday with officials from the finance ministry to discuss the project and this week's statement from European data protection agencies saying Google's new privacy policy does not comply with EU laws.
Google rolled out the new privacy policy in March, allowing it to track users across various services to develop targeted advertising, despite sharp criticism from US and European consumer advocacy groups.
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Rhys Matthew Bond Wiki, Age, Girlfriend, Dating, Parents, Interview
Published On: 17 Oct, 2017
21 Years 1 Month(s)
Girlfriend/Dating
Bailee Madison (Rumored)
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5 Feet 10 Inches (178 cm)
Neil Bond (Father), Tirana Bond (Mother)
Zoe (Sister)
"You don't have to be rough and desperate to make it big in the industry; you can put the entertainment fraternity to its knee when you have charisma and talent. Rhys Mathew Bond belongs to the same bracket, who is known for his critically acclaimed performance in TV series "Good Witch." The picture-perfect guy hasn't disclosed his relationship status just yet, but fans are excited to the bond between him and Bailee.
Career and Professional Life:
The student of Fine Arts School started acting at the tender age of 10 in school plays. But he began his career as an artist in 2012. Joey Award recipient starred in 2014's "RL Stine's The Haunting Hour" where he did justice to his role by the excellent portrayal. After an impressive start to his career, he continued his success streak with" The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story."
The actor received the Joey Award for his role "The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story." But the best was yet to screen from him, and it came with the TV series called "Good Witch" where he starred alongside Catherine Bell, Bailee Madison, and James Denton. He is relatively new in the industry and gaining pace with fellow actors. He charges sizeable amount from his producer which boasts his net worth to thousands of dollar which yet to be made official.
Are "Good Witch" Co-stars just Friends or Dating??
Rhys Matthew Bond with that chocolate looks was sure to attract beautiful ladies around him which does include his co-stars. Rhys and Bailee's bond caught many eyes and fans can't get enough of them.
Caption: Rhys and Bailee enjoying ice skating on 17th January 2016
Source: Just Jared
It was early 2016 when the duo was caught outside of the set of "Good witch" where they accompanied each other while ice skating. Rhys and Bailee had a hell of a time, and media even caught them in each other arms.
Although the pair hasn't confessed whether or not they are dating, they do share a strong relationship. Also in June 2016, Bailee posted a video and said that Rhys is social on the set and said:
"Look how my life he loves me... ??"
Then Rhys retweeted on her post and said he is romantic. The public conversation does hint at a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, but they haven't confirmed their relationship just yet.
In an interview with TVRuckus, he said that he loves to play guitar and wants to continue his acting career which he is exceedingly passionate about.
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The Joey Award recipient was born in London England on 11th June 1998 which makes his age 19. He was born to parents Neil and Tirana Bond. In an interview, he mentioned that his father works in shipping industry while his mother is a gemologist. As per wiki sources, he has a younger sister named Zoe in his family. When he was ten years old, his family moved to British Columbia, Canada. Belonging to white ethnicity, he possesses a lean body shape which suits his decent height.
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Dirk Hartford: Reviewing Johnny Copelyn's autobiography – Maverick Insider
14th May 2016 13th May 2016 by Alec Hogg
HCI co-founder Johnny Copelyn has packed a lot into his 65 years. From trade unionist to one of the most successful of the New South Africa's entrepreneurial stories, his was an unusual path now documented in an aptly named autobiography. Dirk Hartford, who penned this excellent review, is also an "insider" having observed Copelyn from close up during his own activist, journalist and entrepreneurial endeavours. All of which makes for fascinating contributions – both Hartford's review, and the book itself. – Alec Hogg
By Dirk Hartford*
No-one else but Johnny Copelyn, the billionaire boss of HCI, could launch his memoir in front of several hundred trade unionists at the head-office of Cosatu's key industrial affiliate SACTWU with the Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel introducing him.
For Copelyn has been central to so many critical and cutting edge developments in the past 45 years that its hard to imagine our history in several important respects without him. He was in the thick of things in the workers struggle after its reemergence in the Durban strikes of 1973 till he left trade unionism to go to Parliament in 1994 as one of 20 people on Cosatu's slate with the ANC.
He was the first to see the opportunity for a trade union investment company in the new non-racial capitalist environment and the Sactwu Investment company/HCI which resulted has far and away been the most successful of the trade union investment vehicles and of BEE in general. The unionists at the launch came not to bury him but to praise him.
His memoir, "Maverick Insider – a struggle for union independence in a time of national liberation" – covers his trade union and political life till he embarked on the business path in his mid forties. Its a story of a third generation Lithuanian Jew from Joburg, politicised by the jewish socialist youth organisation Habonim, who turned to left wing ideas at Wits University and then to the emerging workers movement in Durban.
He arrived in Durban when the independent organisation of black workers was both illegal and in its infancy. In the textile and clothing industry Copelyn worked in, only coloured, indian and white unions had some rights under Tucsa which was all that was left of worker organisation in the seventies after the smashing of the Congress alliance in the early sixties.
Read also: IRR: Trade unions lose control of the workshop floor
In this environment Copelyn and others began to assist in the organisation of black workers into trade unions. Over the next fifteen years, bar a period when he was banned and he qualified and worked as a labour lawyer, he was directly involved in securing a number of firsts for the labour movement including the country's first recognition agreement for a trade union for black workers with Smith & Nephew. The recognition agreement became the template for the organisation of industrial relations and trade union rights for black workers under conditions of illegality going forward.
His was a key voice in Fosatu and then Cosatu in the 80's who argued for utilising every gap, especially legal and institutional, that the repressive situation offered to advance workers rights and organisation as opposed to those who sort to boycott official structures and struggle outside of these parameters. Effectively using the law and precedent to stake out new rights for workers, many of the new unions registered with the state and participated in existing industrial councils while others opposed this as a matter of principle.
Perhaps his crowning achievement was the central role Copelyn played, through two major and complex merger processes, in finally getting the disparate racially based unions organising in the clothing and textile industries mainly among indians in KZN and coloureds in the western Cape to unite in one national industrial union known today as the SA Clothing and Textile Workers Union. By the late 80's Sactwu was the third biggest union in Cosatu after the Num and Numsa.
Read also: Gideon du Plessis: Trade union rivalry could set country on fire
Sactwu was the union which initiated the Workers Charter campaign in Cosatu to ensure workers rights would be respected in a future democratic South Africa and many of its core demands were incorporated into the RDP and the Bill of Rights. Ironically, 25 years on Sactwu is now one of a few industrial unions firmly behind the current Cosatu leadership while the likes of Vavi and Numsa are mobilising around the Workers Charter idea in their efforts to get a new federation off the ground.
Copelyn description of himself as a maverick insider is apt. He was and is a natural and intuitive influencer with a finally tuned strategic sense and a strong competitive edge. Not afraid to take risks, he frequently bought new and controversial ideas to labour issues often mired in the political correctness of the times and was more then a strategic match for the other big guns of Cosatu at the time like Cyril Ramaphosa, Alec Erwin and Jay Naidoo. An enthusiastic chess player, Copelyn played union and later business politics like a chess game – strategically and decisively, often thinking10 steps ahead of the next move his opponents were concentrating on.
In another first, Copelyn met the challenge of retrenchments at Frame in the nineties to get an agreement for Sactwu to set up and run their own clothing factory Zenzeleni which he took command of. It was the first co-operative of its kind and his first exposure to the skills needed to run a business – something that stood him in good stead when he started Sactwu's investment company later.
Read also: Warring trade unions: The real reason ANC top brass haven't yet fired Zuma
In 1994 he was also among the 20 Cosatu leaders who went into our first democratic parliament under Mandela as part of the ANC slate. It was during this time that Copelyn, ever the pragmatist and knowing full well that there was no intention on the part of the ANC to challenge the capitalist system, birthed the trade union investment vehicle idea with R2 million loaned by the union. Today HCI alone is worth R12.5 billion and the empire he created spans sectors cross the board including gambling, hotels, media, mining, gaming, property and wine, as well as several other listed vehicles.
The book is Copelyn's personal account of this history told in an engaging conversational style with his characteristic fierce independence and wry sense of humour. It is also an accolade to the remarkable bunch of leaders who emerged alongside him in the battle to organise clothing and textile workers and who generally remained intensely loyal to each other through numerous struggles and hardships over the labour years.
Many of his former union comrades, like Yunus Shaik, the late Virginia Engel, Jabu Ngcobo, Freddie Magugu, Rachel Watson, Elias Mphande and Les Maasdorp, are still actively involved with him in HCI. Others, like Ebrahim Patel and Lionel October, are leaders in government. Others, like Andre Kriel and Ronald Bernikow, are still in the union or the CCMA. All can be relied on to have his back, as he has watched out for theirs over the years. And that is why he alone of all the comrades turned capitalists can still confidently go back to his old stomping ground at Sactwu to launch his memoir.
It is a pity that Copelyn's memoir stops at the point where his business dealings took off twenty years ago for it is in the business sphere that his formidable strategic and negotiating skills really took off enabling him to make not only himself and his close comrades unbelievably rich, but also his old union. But that story, with all its intrigues, lessons and controversies, will have to await his sequel.
Dirk Hartford is working on social entrepreneurship projects with the NGO sector in the Overberg. In previous incarnations, he was the founding CEO of Gauteng radio station YFM, a journalist and a trade unionist. He was an activist in the ANC for 30 years but faded away from that a decade ago and is feeling much better now thank you.


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Q: Importing two matrices from txt file python I'm trying to import two matrices from a txt file with python. The txt file looks like this
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]  [7, 8, 9]
[10, 11, 12, None, 13, 15]  [16, 17, 18]
[None, None, None, 19, 20, None]  [21, 22, 23]
[24, 25, 26, 27, 28, None]  [None, None, None]

The two matrices are separated by a tab, and have the same number of rows (4 in this example). Every element of a matrix is either an integer of None. How can I import them?
This is what I tried so far
import numpy
x, y = numpy.loadtxt("file.txt", delimiter="\t")
print(x[0]) # should be [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
print(y[1]) # should be [16, 17, 18]
print(x[0][0] + x[1][0]) # should be 11

which gives the error ValueError: could not convert string to float: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]  [7, 8, 9]. What am I doing wrong?
P.S.
I could create the txt file without the brackets if that helps.

A: First remove the braces from your text file and make them comma/space separated lists.
Convert them to fa list of list of floats.
results = []
with open("file.txt", "r") a f:
  results.append(f.readline().split(","))
results = [[float(item) for item in result] for result in results]

At this stage you've a list of list of floats.
From here you could do a simple
np.array_split(results,5)

to get two lists and load them into a matrix.

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Guimarei era una freguesia portuguesa del municipio de Santo Tirso, distrito de Oporto.

Historia

Fue suprimida el 28 de enero de 2013, en aplicación de una resolución de la Asamblea de la República portuguesa promulgada el 16 de enero de 2013 al unirse con la freguesia de Lamelas, formando la nueva freguesia de Lamelas e Guimarei.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Antiguas freguesias de Santo Tirso

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What is the primary purpose: heat or power production? That is the question, and many people believe the two options are mutually exclusive. However, this is not necessarily the case. In an energy landscape of increasingly decentralized power producing units, there are a growing number of CHP operators taking a different approach. One of them is the local heat system "Brigachschiene" in southern Germany. Three combined heat and power units running on biomethane generate 3.7 MWe. They source their biomethane from the Germany company bmp greengas, and their units are linked to Next Kraftwerke's Virtual Power Plant via the remote control unit "Next Box." Heat or power production? For Brigachschiene, it's no longer an either-or question.


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Weirder Things
June 06, 2017 • Sarah Nicole Prickett on Episode 5 of Twin Peaks: The Return
Twin Peaks: The Return, 2017, still from a TV show on Showtime. Season 3, episode 5. Becky (Amanda Seyfried).
"BLUE IS THE WRONG COLOR FOR ROSES," says the crippled, disconsolate Laura in The Glass Menagerie (1944), my favorite Tennessee Williams play. "It's right for you!" says Jim, her old high-school crush. They are about twenty-three years old and have been reunited in the one-sided hope that he'll pick her out, pick her up, and carry her off. Once, all those years ago, she told him she was sick with pleurosis, which he misheard as "blue roses." The mondegreen stuck. "The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of," he says to her. "Because other people are not such wonderful people . . . They're common as—weeds, but—you—well, you're—Blue Roses!"
Though Laura is "pretty . . . in a different way," she is apparently still more different than pretty. Jim wishes she were his sister, not his girl. He is engaged now to a chick named Betty, he says, dropping the bombshell like it's a jacket on a chair. With about the same care, he lets fall a glass unicorn in the menagerie––its horn breaks, leaving it a mere pale horse. "I'll just imagine it had an operation," Laura makes herself say. "The horn was removed to make him less—freakish!" Meanwhile, Laura's kid brother, who has facilitated this unblissful reunion, is at the movies, which makes sense for a boy who, in the words of Laura's sister, doesn't know anything. "You live in a dream," she says, when he gets back. "You manufacture illusions!" When Jim leaves, she says, faintly: "Things have a way of turning out so badly."
There is an old word for women who believe they can overturn fate, and the word, as an adjective, is "weird." (Remember, in Macbeth, the "weird sisters.") This was also the word, as a noun, for fate or destiny itself, and is now the word, as a verb, for alienating others. What makes the new David Lynch so weird, and at the same time traditional, sometimes ancient, is its ever more delayed, more inevitable reckoning with fate. Things in Twin Peaks have a way of turning out badly, and for women those ways are more predictable. "Blue Rose," the designation lent by FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (David Lynch) to the few, weird cases we see him handle, seems to imply that the cases are unsolvable, or that the solutions lie in the paranormal. But in the case of Laura Palmer, what was left unresolved was something very physical, very sick, between her and her father. If biology is not destiny, and neither is identity, we can split the difference: it's family that destines and thwarts us, family that buries the evidence for what we can and can't do, and family that decides, still and so often, where we end.
At the end of the second, third, and fourth hours in Twin Peaks: The Return, we were left at the Bang Bang Bar, the long-standing roadhouse in Twin Peaks, listening to a new band each time: the Chromatics, the Cactus Blossoms, Au Revoir Simone. They played songs about darkness and seeing angels, about going down to shorelines, living evening to night. Before the end of hour five, we go again to the bar, where now the band Trouble is playing, and a guy with the face of a wolf raised by housecats is smoking under a No Smoking sign. This guy, we see in the credits, is Richard Horne (Eamon Farren). It would seem that Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn), the baddest girl with the second-worst dad on the original Twin Peaks, has a son who's just evil. (Having yet to see Fenn, we can't be sure; he could belong to another Horne.) A girl who asks Richard for a cigarette gets choked out, name-called, and threatened with rape, or something like rape, instead. Trouble plays a song about wearing a new pair of cowboy boots to dance on the future grave of Kenneth Anger, next to the one for Johnny Ramone, in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (the song has no words).
Twin Peaks: The Return, 2017, still from a TV show on Showtime. Season 3, episode 5. Richard Horne (Eamon Farren).
Over at the Double R Diner, where Shelly Johnson (Mädchen Amick) and Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton) are still working, or where, I suppose, the women could have returned after second divorces, the daily lunch special is $8.95 and Shelly's daughter needs $72 in cash. Becky (Amanda Seyfried) is wed to the weirdly hot asshole and coke dealer Steven Burnett (Caleb Landry Jones), just as her mother, in Twin Peaks, was wed to the weirdly hot asshole and coke dealer, also the woman-beater, Leo Johnson: "I've got one man too many in life," said Shelly at the time, "and I'm married to him." When her husband wound up in a coma, her real love, Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), believed she could cash in on the disability checks and change her life. Apparently not. "If you don't help [Becky] now," says Norma to Shelly, "it'll be a lot harder to help her later." Shelly says, "We both know that tune."
Where sudden, unearned riches are an ultimate fairy-tale ending, the notion of being happy without money is no less fantastical. Even a little extra serves the purpose. Steven has thoughtfully saved a thimble of cocaine for his wife, a wee aperitif before he takes her to an unaffordable dinner, and she snorts it off his hand before putting on the song "I Love How You Love Me," from 1961. We know this tune too, whether or not we've heard it before. Head tossed back to the sky, eyes so wide she's like Joan Crawford playing innocent, Becky looks ecstatic, or should I quote the poet Harmony Holiday, in her new book Hollywood Forever, on "what hints at an ecstatic freedom of the mind but is actually our most tender disaster after birth" (I guess she means sex, heterosexually). Becky's thrill is adamantine, ludic. Either the cocaine is also from '61 or love is really the drug.
My friend Alan says that Twin Peaks: The Return is perfect because it manages to say exactly what David Lynch means: Our favorite auteur is funnier than ever, but he isn't joking. My friend Fiona says he's trying to get us all to transcendentally meditate, to slow down and stop thinking, which she's into. As for me, the reason I feel so understood by Lynch is that, though like him I believe we do our best, and though sometimes our best is better than at other times, we can change very little besides ourselves, and our selves are in themselves not that significant. I believe in fate with every new year that repeats itself. I no longer believe that anything changes your life, your experience of life.
— Sarah Nicole Prickett
Sarah Nicole Prickett's individual recaps of Twin Peaks: The Return:
Episodes 1 & 2
Episodes 9 & 10
Episodes 11 & 12
Episodes 13, 14, & 15
Episodes 17 & 18 (January 2018)
Twin Peaks: The Return plays Sundays at 9 PM on Showtime.


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Q: Data binding a Winforms `ComboBox.SelectedItem` seems to not work when the binding implements the Format event handler I have a combo box where SelectedItem is data bound. I want to display different values on the control from what I store in my model (display: "Comma", model: ","). To translate between the two I implemented handlers for Binding.Format and
Binding.Parse:
// simplified for test case purposes
binding.Format += (s, e) => e.Value = ((string)e.Value == ",") ? "Comma" : "Semicolon";
binding.Parse += (s, e) => e.Value = ((string)e.Value == "Comma") ? "," : ";";

When the program is run, I expected the combo box to display "Comma", but it
shows nothing (as its seleceted item) instead.
What am I doing wrong?
Notes

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*A text box (with a similar mapping) shows the correct value.

*Without the mapping (i.e. replacing "," with "Comma" in the model and
removing the handlers) the combo box shows the expected value.

*I noticed (using a break point) that the Format handler is run twice when
the form is shown, why is it run two times (instead of once)?

*After the form is closed the Format handler is run twice again, why is it
run at all?
Testcase
public class Model
{
    public string Value { get; set; } = ",";
}

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    var model = new Model();

    var comboBox = new ComboBox() { Dock = DockStyle.Top };
    comboBox.Items.AddRange(new object[] { "Comma", "Semicolon", });
    var binding = new Binding(nameof(ComboBox.SelectedItem), model, nameof(Model.Value));
    binding.Format += (s, e) => e.Value = ((string)e.Value == ",") ? "Comma" : "Semicolon";
    binding.Parse += (s, e) => e.Value = ((string)e.Value == "Comma") ? "," : ";";
    comboBox.DataBindings.Add(binding);

    var textBox = new TextBox() { Dock = DockStyle.Top };
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Evidently Marilyn has her own FB page.
Worth checking out Lawrence Shiller's previously unpublished Marilyn stills (she's naked, but it's mostly SFW).
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Thank You to Our Mass General Community
A letter from Peter L. Slavin, MD, President of Massachusetts General Hospital and Timothy G. Ferris, MD, CEO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, to Mass General employees.
We all have watched closely and cautiously as the coronavirus circled the globe, affecting the health and psyches of millions of people, upending daily life and creating upheaval in the global economy. After nearly two months of planning and careful preparations, our hospital last week transitioned into what is likely to be an extended phase of response and implementation as Massachusetts began seeing a rising number of COVID-19 cases. With this transition has come the opportunity to witness firsthand what has long defined Massachusetts General Hospital.
The challenges thrown at us by this unfamiliar and unpredictable pathogen are extensive. Yet, in many ways, we have been here before. During our more than two centuries of delivering care, the MGH has faced a range of crises. And each time our hospital has been there for its patients, its staff, its community, gathering important lessons and building on experiences to apply to the next challenge.
As early as 1849, to control the spread of disease, the MGH constructed a special isolation ward on the grounds near the stately Bulfinch Building. Two years later, during a local outbreak of smallpox, the hospital waged a campaign to "secure all persons in the hospital by vaccination." During the deadly worldwide 1918 influenza epidemic, MGH leaders were among those who advanced epidemiology and disaster preparedness. Early in World War II surgeon Edward Churchill, MD, led the creation of the hospital's first formal disaster plan, which included the clearing of a ward to handle a surge of patients—a fortuitous move that saved lives when the hospital received 114 Cocoanut Grove fire victims in 1942. More recently, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing revealed the need to equip people with tools and training for mass casualty events, and tourniquets were part of the answer.
The hospital's rich legacy of preparedness and response to disaster and crisis is truly inspiring. In each case throughout our history, the women and men of Mass General have risen to the challenge and provided superb care to our patients, their loved ones and our community. And in each case, the hospital emerged from the crisis stronger, more unified, and wiser than before.
These are extraordinary times—times that call for extraordinary people. Without fanfare, you go beyond your job descriptions to keep our patients and their families, visitors, colleagues and community safe; to cope with uncertainty; to represent MGH as a beacon of hope and a temple of healing. Acts of kindness, ingenuity and compassion come second nature to you.
We are proud to call you colleagues. You are the spirit of this place.
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News and information about COVID-19.
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If someone is not honest with us, and then more we engage into them, the more of their lies we will fester inside of us, will create some sort of stiffness.
Anything that causes stiffness should ignore otherwise stiffness itself causes contraction, could be in the form of physical 'health' or emotional or even spiritual disturbance!
At physical level may further lead to joint pains, arthritis, any type of stone, and may further an organs not functioning properly.


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1913 – Unbuilt Design for City Hall, Winnipeg
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1913 – Third Placed Design for City Hall, Winnipeg
Architect: Clemesha & Portnall
In early 1913, a committee of Winnipeg's City Planning Commission recommended that a new civic centre be built, and a contest for a design for a new city hall was announced. Thirty-nine designs were submitted in competition and on 10 March 1913, Winnipeg city council announced that the winning design was by the firm of Clemesha & Portnall of Regina. Second prize went to the firm Woodman & Carey of Winnipeg, and three third prizes were awarded.
The selected design was described as "Greek Ionic", to be built of grey Kenora granite and the estimated cost was $2,392,926. By the time of the competition complete, Canada was in recession, and with the completion of the Panama Canal shortly after, Winnipeg's growth faltered and the plan was shelved.
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Q: How to have multiple pictures use the Modal.js? So I have images in a div side by side that I'd like to open in their own Modal pop up, this is what I'm using so far
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// Get the modal
var modal = document.getElementById('myModal');

// Get the image and insert it inside the modal - use its "alt" text as a
caption
var img = document.getElementById('myImg');
var modalImg = document.getElementById("img01");
var captionText = document.getElementById("caption");
img.onclick = function(){
modal.style.display = "block";
modalImg.src = this.src;
captionText.innerHTML = this.alt;
}

// Get the  element that closes the modal
var span = document.getElementsByClassName("close")[0];

// When the user clicks on  (x), close the modal
span.onclick = function() {
modal.style.display = "none";
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I've tried a couple lines like this and it's still broken, I've tried doubling the whole block of js, and it only loads on the first one and wont show the image either, so far I've only been able to get it to work with only one image, I need the same effect to work on about 32 images ultimately in the thumbs DIV above
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A: You're using same ID multiple times (which is not allowed) in the document. For example: myModal, myImg
Numbered the ID attribute for each image & modal so they will have different ID. For example:
<img id="myImg1"...
<div id="myModal1"...
<img id="myImg2"...
<div id="myModal2"...

or use only one modal, and change modal content based on values you get from image. Like this:
<img onclick="insert(this)" class="img" src="img/img1.jpg"...
<img onclick="insert(this)" class="img" src="img/img2.jpg"...
<div id="myModal"...

...

function insert(ctl) {
  modal.style.display = "block";
  modalImg.src = ctl.src;
  captionText.innerHTML = ctl.alt;
}

Hope this helps!


Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the Philips V60 Plus ventilator has received CE mark approval. This comprehensive solution expands on Philips' noninvasive ventilation (NIV) gold standard platform, integrating both NIV and high flow therapy (HFT) in a single device. Clinicians can rapidly adjust therapies around constantly changing patient conditions without having to switch devices. Designed for early intervention in respiratory failure, the V60 Plus enables clinicians to further enhance patient outcomes with less invasive respiratory care therapies, while improving clinician workflow and maximizing equipment investments.
This solution expands on Philips' commitment and leadership in hospital respiratory care. The V60 Plus has received CE mark and is available for sale in Europe, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510k has been submitted. For more information on Philips' full suite of hospital respiratory care solutions, visit https://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/solutions/hospital-respiratory-care.
 Complications of non-invasive ventilation techniques: a comprehensive qualitative review of randomized trials. M. Carron, U. Freo et al., British Journal of Anesthesia, June, 2013.


Everything has come to an end… After participating in the course "Cultural awareness in health and social research", I would hereby like to declare myself as being cultural aware! This course have for sure given me whole new perspectives. It doesn't make sense, but the new perspectives and the feeling I have about it is hard to explain. The feeling is in a deeper dimension, it almost feels "organic". Nevertheless, I love the course design since it has impelled me to experience cultural differences AND to overcome them.
You know when you here a song and you keep playing it on repeat again and again. That's how it been for me since I woke up this morning and heard charming Mason Ramsey sing "Famous". It's of course a love song and he sings that he wants to be famous for loving his girl. During my morning walk, that made me think of – what if I was famous… What would it be for? I wish that if I'm gonna be famous for something, I wanna be famous for being frank, fearless and loving. My ambition is to be accepting, curious and respectful towards my fellow human beings, in the spirit of being cultural competent.
After dwelling around in this creative social media forum (where I'm pretty confident) I now have to step up and challenge myself. Guess I have to become more serious and dig into the scientific aspect of this topic and deepen my knowledge about how this will affect my research plan. For this purpose, my assessment paper comes in handy.


"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate sensations of birds in nature. I have tried to present my impressions in what is the most congenial and expressive form achievable from me. I have elected to study birds with brush and paint, attempting to force this often-unwilling medium of paint and ground, to record them. I recall two strong feelings since my childhood: a bond between birds and myself and desire for self-expression with my hands. These have never ceased to be united within my evolving vision and lifework as a painter of birds. I have a kinship with Man's first artists and America's lineage of Avian Artists, beginning with John James Audubon. "


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Is a scythe and sickle?
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Is a scythe a sword?
The kama (鎌 or かま) is a traditional Japanese farming implement similar to a sickle used for reaping crops and also employed as a weapon.
It is often included in weapon training segments of martial arts..
As a weapon Like other farming tools, the sickle can be used as an improvised bladed weapon. Examples include the Japanese kusarigama and kama, the Chinese chicken sickles, and the makraka of the Zande people of north central Africa.
1 : an agricultural implement consisting of a curved metal blade with a short handle fitted on a tang. 2 : the cutting mechanism (as of a reaper, combine, or mower) consisting of a bar with a series of cutting elements. sickle. adjective.
Harvesting with a sickle is very slow, but because of its simplicity and low cost, it is still widely used over the world, especially to reap cereals such as wheat and rice and also as a gardening tool.
Because their versatility, high effectiveness and cheap cost, polearms experimentation led to many variants and were the most frequently used weapons on the battlefield: bills, picks, spears, glaives, guandaos, pudaos, poleaxes, halberds, harpoons, sovnyas, tridents, naginatas, war scythes and javelins are all …
A sickle is a tool with a handle and a curved metal blade that workers use for trimming grass or harvesting crops. Put a hammer next to a sickle and boom, there's the symbol for communism. Farmers use sickles to clear brush or cut grain crops by hand.
A scythe (pronounced "sigh" or "sithe") consists of a curved, steel blade attached to one end of a long, wooden shaft called a snath. Handles on the snath allow the user to hold the scythe and stand upright while swinging the blade horizontally at ground level to cut grass or brush.
scytheA scythe is a sharp, curved blade used for mowing or reaping. While farmers use it to cut plants, the grim reaper uses it to, well, scare you to death. In Old English, scythe was spelled siðe. Since there is no longer an ð in modern English, scythe became the accepted form of the word in the early 15th century.
He is also known as the Pale Horseman whose name is Thanatos, the same as that of the ancient Greek personification of death, and the only one of the horsemen to be named.
The main difference between Sickle and Scythe is that the Sickle is a agricultural tool and Scythe is a agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. … A scythe () is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops.
The use of a scythe is traditionally called mowing, now often scything to distinguish it from machine mowing. … The body is then twisted to the right, the blade hooks the grass and is swung steadily to the left in a long arc ending in front of the mower and depositing the cut grass neatly to the left.
Scythe, one of the most important of all agricultural hand tools, consisting of a curved blade fitted at an angle to a long, curved handle and used for cutting grain.
Miller HendrikA scythe is one of the major weapons wielded by Miller Hendrik in The Windmill Massacre. The other is a metal hook on the end of a long chain. One of the scarecrows in Scarecrows wields a sickle as its personal weapon.
Farming tools such as the scythe and pitchfork have frequently been used as a weapon by those who could not afford or did not have access to more expensive weapons such as pikes, swords, or later, guns. … War scythes were widely used by Polish and Lithuanian peasants during revolts in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In modern-day European-based folklore, Death is known as the Grim Reaper, depicted as wearing a dark hooded cloak and wielding a scythe. … The scythe is an image that reminds us that Death reaps the souls of sinners like the peasant who harvests corn in his field. Each movement of the scythe brings thousands of souls.
If you feel the need to throw some fire around, you are legally allowed to purchase a flamethrower under federal law, and 40 states have no laws against owning the weapon. Well, people have used scythes (or more accurately, sickles) as weapons in combat. …
An American scythe purchased in a local farm store in Pennsylvania weighs almost 6 pounds (2.70 kilograms), while a European scythe weighs less than 4 pounds (1.75 kilograms). It is clear that when making ten thousand cuts to mow one acre, there is a big difference in the effort needed.
The scythe sword (Sensenschwert) was a type of single-edged sword of the German Renaissance, related to the Dussack. It consisted of the blade of a scythe to which a sword hilt was attached. … This sword has a representation of a runic calendar incised on the blade.
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Q: Database Schema Design: Tracking User Balance with concurrency In an app that I am developing, we have users who will make deposits into the app and that becomes their balance.
They can use the balance to perform certain actions and also withdraw the balance. What is the schema design that ensures that the user can never withdraw / or perform more than he has, even in concurrency.
For example:
CREATE TABLE user_transaction (
  transaction_id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
  change_value   BIGINT NOT NULL,
  user_id        INT NOT NULL REFERENCES user
)

The above schema can keep track of balance, (select sum() from user_transction); However, this does not hold in concurrency. Because the user can post 2 request simultaneously, and two records could be inserted in 2 simultaneous database connections.
I can't do in-app locking either (to ensure only one transcation gets written at a time), because I run multiple web servers.
Is there a database schema design that can ensure correctness?
P.S. Off the top of my head, I can imagine leveraging the uniqueness constraint in SQL. By having later transaction reference earlier transactions, and since each earlier transaction can only be referenced once, that ensures correctness at the database level.

A: Relying on calculating an account balance every time you go to insert a new transaction is not a very good design - for one thing, as time goes by it will take longer and longer, as more and more rows appear in the transaction table.
A better idea is to store the current balance in another table - either a new table, or in the existing users table that you are already using as a foreign key reference.
It could look like this:
CREATE TABLE users (
    user_id INT PRIMARY KEY,
    balance BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 CHECK(balance>=0)
);

Then, whenever you add a transaction, you update the balance like this:
UPDATE user SET balance=balance+$1 WHERE user_id=$2;

You must do this inside a transaction, in which you also insert the transaction record.
Concurrency issues are taken care of automatically: if you attempt to update the same record twice from two different transactions, then the second one will be blocked until the first one commits or rolls back. The default transaction isolation level of 'Read Committed' ensures this - see the manual section on concurrency.
You can issue the whole sequence from your application, or if you prefer you can add a trigger to the user_transaction table such that whenever a record is inserted into the user_transaction table, the balance is updated automatically.
That way, the CHECK clause ensures that no transactions can be entered into the database that would cause the balance to go below 0.


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Best Soundproof Curtains of 2021: Do They Work?
By Clayton Dillon
Most people hang curtains in a room either for decorative purposes, or to control the amount of light coming in. Sheer fabric curtains can add the right accent to a décor, while thick, blackout curtains are a better choice for bedrooms or home theaters.
Ambient noise is usually a secondary consideration for most homeowners or apartment dwellers buying curtains. Some types of window treatments, however, can be quite effective at limiting the amount of disturbing noise created by traffic, kids, or inconsiderate neighbors.
Before going any further, here's a somewhat-disappointing truth: no curtains are completely "soundproof."
Pieces of fabric will never be able to completely eliminate airborne sound, let alone structure-borne noise that travels through walls and floors. However, certain materials can help to absorb and dampen the overall noise transmission in your home.
The Best Soundproof Curtains
US CARGO CONTROL
RYB HOME
US Cargo Control Sound Blanket
Nicetown Thermal Insulated Blackout Curtains
RYB Home Room Divider Curtain
Yakamok Blackout Window Curtain Panels
H. Versailtex Blackout Curtains
1. US Cargo Control Small Sound Blanket
The purpose of a moving blanket is to be wrapped around furniture and fragile items to prevent damage during transport. These blankets are mainly used for their durability and because of how they're engineered.
Regardless of the brand, the outer shell is often comprised of a durable woven material like cotton and polyester. The inside then features a filler material like cotton that absorbs impacts. While these qualities are suitable for safely storing and moving furniture, they are also perfect for sound absorption.
These US Cargo blankets are made with a woven cotton and polyester shell that's wrapped around a 100% cotton filler, providing dense layers (weighing roughly 9 lbs) that are ideally suited to capture and reduce airborne sound from outdoor and indoor sources. The blanket is 72" x 80" in size, enough to cover a normal-sized window.
Since it's a plain-looking blanket and not specifically a window curtain, the US Cargo Control Blanket doesn't have thermal backing or provide any extra UV protection. It's just a black, thick blanket designed to do the best possible job of preventing excess noise from intruding your life.
However US Cargo Control knows the intended application and installed grommets/eyelets that allow you to hang them over windows and doors.
My Father worked for 30 years in the moving industry. From experience (folding these neatly in the back of a tractor trailer for two summers in my early 20s), these blankets, regardless of manufacturer will have a "from factory" smell.
Clayton Dillon
If you intend on using a moving blanket to block sound, look for one that's machine washable and consider doing 2-3 cycles of washing and hang drying before you use them. This will help to mitigate any potential lingering smells/odors.
2. Nicetown Thermal Insulated Blackout Curtains
Unlike the US Cargo blanket, these are acoustic curtains you won't mind showing to your mother.
It's true that they won't block quite the same amount of sound as the blanket. But they'll come fairly close thanks to their triple-weave polyester construction, and their two layers of fabric (attractive in-facing fabric and thermal backing on the window-facing side).
This design does a nice job of trapping airborne sound and damping it considerably. The thermal backing also helps regulate room temperature by keeping cold air at bay in winter, and keeping air conditioning inside the house during summer.
These nicely-priced Nicetown products are made to be used as either curtains or drapes, available in heights from 45" to 108" and in widths from 42" to 52". There's a wide selection of solid and patterned designs and colors, and the very dark ones like brown or burgundy will provide nearly 100% light blackout.
The curtains are machine-washable, but be aware that they're also extremely heavy, with some weighing ten pounds or more (depending on the dimensions you choose).
The grommets at the top of the curtains are solid and won't rip out – but your curtain rods may bend or even break if they're lightweight, so be careful before hanging. The same caution extends to the rest of the soundproof curtains on this list.
3. RYB Home Portable Room Divider Curtain
The RYB Home curtain is designed to serve as a room divider, splitting a large space into two smaller rooms. However, there's no law saying you can't use it as a soundproof curtain instead.
When used as a divider it will damp sound somewhat, but noise can certainly still invade the protected area via the space above and below the curtain.
Hang it in front of your windows, though, and the triple-weave polyester fabric (high density polyester yarn is the middle layer) will absorb or damp a considerable amount of airborne noise.
Just as with the Nicetown curtains, there are 14 different colors/patterns available. The darker colors like black and brown will block out close to 100% of the ambient light coming from outdoors, when the RYB curtain is used as a window treatment.
As you would expect, light will still flow above and below the curtain when it's used as a room divider. There are two layers of identical material front-and-back, with no thermal backing; this heavy curtain comes in 8.3' to 15" widths and 7' to 10' heights.
4. Yakamok Blackout Window Curtain Panels
These Yakamok panels provide about the same noise-absorbing and damping effect as the Nicetown and RYB curtains. They're made from similar triple-weave blackout fabric with two layers; the backing isn't thermal, but it will still block most UV rays from entering the room.
The darker colors also provide a nearly 100% blackout of all light and noticeable protection against winter's cold winds.
Those darker colors are burgundy, navy blue and dark gray, among the eight attractive colors available. These curtains are all 52" wide, but they come in heights from 45" to 108" so you can use them either as standard curtains or full-sized drapes.
The Yakamoks are also machine washable.
5. H. Versailtex Premium Blackout Curtains
These curtains feature triple-weave polyester microfiber construction, thermal insulation backing to protect against cold and UV rays, and a luxurious look and feel.
As large pleated curtains, the folds add another element to their sound damping properties, and they will absorb most outdoor airborne noise and damp reflected indoor sound nicely.
There are 12 attractive patterned colors available, with all choices 100" wide and options from 84" to 108" high. The black and plum purple will do the best job absorbing sound, but there are a number of other darker colors to choose from as well.
The H. Versailtex curtains offer one final selling point you won't often see in relatively-inexpensive blackout curtains: an eight-year quality warranty.
What to Look For in Soundproof Curtains
To preface this section we first need to define what Soundproof Curtains really means:
As mentioned at the top of this article, "soundproof" curtains aren't really soundproof.
Solid walls, doors, and windows block many of the sound waves that reach your home, but some of that noise still makes it through. Even if most of the outside noise can be blocked, the sound generated inside your house is constantly reflected and amplified as it bounces off these surfaces.
Curtains, whether they're made from flimsy decorative lace, or multiple layers of heavy-duty fabric, microfiber, vinyl or fiberglass, can't block all of the sound bombarding the exterior and floating around the interior of your home.
Meaning, if walls and windows can't do it, porous curtains certainly can't.
In fact, fabric curtains with properties approaching "true" soundproofing capabilities would have to be made from material that's at least a couple of inches thick – impractical at best and unavailable at worst – and they also have to be attached to the structure that forms the wall or window frame.
Structures like window plugs or inserts can engineered to block sound transmission through your window. While these plugs are made to be removable, they're often heavy (50-70 lbs), expensive, and defeat the purpose of having a window as they completely obstruct the view.
Here's what all of that means:
"Soundproof" curtains (commonly called acoustic curtains) are really noise-damping curtains, designed to absorb as much sound as possible. They may cut the level of noise way down, but they can't completely block it.
Compared to decorative curtains, acoustic curtains can reduce noise by nearly 10 dB. To outline:
1 dB change: Imperceptible
3 dB change: Just perceptible
5 dB change: Clearly perceptible
10 dB change: Substantial change (halves sound)
Evaluating Acoustic Curtains
Two key factors determine the effectiveness of acoustic curtains: the material they're made from and their thickness.
The materials that are best at absorbing sound are noted as being porous and thick.
Porous, because sound waves are able to penetrate the fabric where they become trapped. Their sound energy is either converted into heat and dissipated, or released back into the room after being considerably damped.
Thick, because the more material that's available, the harder for sound to transmit through.
When it comes to materials that are specifically regarded for their soundproofing ability, they'll be rated for either NRC, STC, or IIC.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that you'll find consumer curtains labeled with an NRC or STC rating as they're generally used for "true" soundproofing materials like foam, and other commercial and industrial products.
Here's a quick overview of the pertinent ratings:
Sound Transmission Class or STC
A materials STC rating describes it's ability to attenuate airborne sound.
While more can be said about STC ratings, essentially, the higher the rating, the better the materials ability to reduce airborne noise transmission.
Note that STC ratings are based on a logarithmic scale. Meaning increases in only a few points can result in significant decibel change.
Noise Reduction Coefficient or NRC
A materials NRC rating or Noise Reduction Coefficient is a measure of it's effectiveness at absorbing sound in any given space.
NRC is measured with what appears to be a narrow scale of 0.0 - 1.0. This number appears as a decimal and can be easily converted into a fraction.
Perfect Relection: NRC 0.0
Materials with an NRC rating of 0.0 have no sound-absorbing qualities.
Perfect Absorption: NRC 1.0
Materials with an NRC rating of 1.0 absorb 100% of sound.
To demonstrate:
A material with an NRC rating of 0.3 will absorb 30% of the sound while the remaining 70% will be reflected into the space.
A material with an NRC rating of 0.03 will absorb 3% of the sound and 97% will be reflected into the space.
Meaning the higher the NRC rating, the better the soundproofing ability of the material.
Learn More: Noise Reduction Coefficient Explained
While this metric would certainly be useful to look at when purchasing soundproofing curtains, it is rarely supplied by manufacturers.
So if you can't compare NRC or STC ratings, what factors do you look at?
Fabric Considerations
Fabric should be porous, thick, and dense – these factors enable more sound to be damped and absorbed.
Velvet, suede and certain types of polyester are usually the best choices because they're manufactured with extra fibers in them, making them denser. If you can find a triple-weave fabric, it's a particularly good choice.
Then, consider the curtains' thickness. That doesn't simply mean how dense the material is, but also how many layers of fabric are used to make the curtains. Acoustic curtains are usually made with two layers of fabric. That serves two purposes:
It provides more material in which sound can be trapped.
It allows for an outward-facing layer that can block light and harmful ultraviolet rays, and an inward-facing layer that can be chosen to match your room's décor.
This design is normally used for what are sold as "blackout curtains." They will have dual layers of fabric, and the most effective ones will also come with multiple pleats or folds which results in more material to help with sound absorption.
Curtains with thermal insulation backing will also make them more "soundproof."
Curtain Rods and Thermal Backing
Dense material is likely to be heavy, so don't be surprised if it's difficult to find lightweight acoustic curtains. There's nothing wrong with the heavyweight ones; just be aware that you'll probably need sturdier curtain rods, and the curtains themselves should be manufactured with a good number of heavyweight support grommets at the top.
We've mentioned thermal backing, and it's useful for more than noise reduction. It's also the best choice in many climates, since it minimizes heat transfer.
Chances are that you want your curtains to keep light out, not just sound. Manufacturers are better at detailing the amount of sunlight that they'll block than they are at determining and publicly releasing NRC ratings. That information will usually be described as the percentage of light that they block out.
Naturally, you'll want to consider the color and size of the curtains, to ensure that they look good in your room and are long and wide enough to have the desired effect.
Remember that light (and sound) can "sneak in" through the open sides of the curtains, so you may want to buy curtains which will extend well past the edges or bottom of each window.
Finally, the old adage "if one is good, two is even better" may be worth thinking about. Many people have found that hanging two sets of curtains, one in front of the other, is a good way to block out as much noise and light as possible.
Clayton, like millions of people, suffers from issues related to sleep. After decades of poor sleep and hundreds of hours of independent research, he decided to create a resource and share his findings with fellow snorers.


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Except for very special cases, such as the sea trouts in the rio Grande, February is the worst month for fishing salmon in Patagonia. For most of the fishing is by far the poorest period of the season. Drought and high temperatures affect countless rivers and streams.Lakes, hot and stratified, fall into a deep well of performance, with the bulk of the fish in deeper waters, away from the reach of a fly. A more marked process with the advent of global warming.
Despite the great breadth of sunshine, "really effective" fishing periods are limited to the first and last 30 minutes of the day. Here at toppharmacyschools.org you can get more different models and style. This is the reason why the fan should be prepared in the best possible place, and act quickly to succeed. The key is to be the man, at the moment just. At this point of the year, stomps the accumulation of fishing pressure, and the trout are increasingly surly and elusive.
In spite of this we must despair, since there are a number of tricks that can turn the taba and assumptions. We then review some of the most important.
A key moment is the Sunrise, where the cool of the night can generate a morning rise of pique. It is not loose, get up at night, Dawn at the place and take advantage of the first thirty minutes of the day as if they were gold. As a friend says: "many only fish are enganables before the first urine of the morning".
The afternoon is also good, although not so much by the accumulation of heat throughout the day. But with a cool front from the West, to decrease the temperature of the water a few tenths of a degree, may be equally or more productive than overnight.
In February, the days are endless, and there is no worse idea (unless a terrestrial insect is dominant), to fish them out. Fearful, go to bed late, and in the Middle, make family or take a restorative NAP.
If you are in a river in a torrid February sunny… stop fishing and take a look! With overhead light climb to a high place and observe the fish. See how they move, or change of attitude or position. Turn over stones, look at the surface and internalize of aquatic insects inhabiting the place. Look for terrestrial insects in the margins, and compare them with those who in your fly box. Observe and use your grey matter to draw conclusions.
That exercise will make you more understand the environment, and will provide you with valuable information to act correctly and quickly in moments which determine as keys.
In November or April, a hatching can occur at noon and last for hours. In February do not pass 20 minutes and everything happens very fast. There is no time to adjust on the fly. Here, entering the water very tight and sharp is closely related to the previous point.


The Phoenix Collegiate - Students can now wear their summer uniform!
Students can now wear their summer uniform!
As the weather gets warmer, it is important we ensure that our students remain comfortable and attentive throughout the school day. Therefore, with immediate effect we will be implementing our summer uniform policy until we break up on 22nd July.
- Choose between wearing their school blazer or their school jumper. One of the two items must be worn. We are happy to provide this choice in response to student requests however, it is very important that they remain smartly dressed at all times and we will therefore insist that shirts/blouses are 'tucked in' at all times.
- Continue to wear their full school uniform.
We will expect students to continue wearing their school tie at all times.
As has always been the case staff will use their discretion during lessons to ensure that students are as comfortable as possible during the warm weather. This is not a relaxation of school uniform policy, but recognition that with summer approaching, students need to be comfortable if they are to study effectively.
All students will be expected to return to school in September wearing their full uniform.
Finally, could I remind parents that wearing a hooded top is not acceptable at any time on school site and does not constitute an outer-coat.
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I have another layout to share that was submitted at Colorful Creations for their Anything Goes - Give Thanks Challenge (AGNOV13). You can see the challenge here.
The challenge is to base your project on something, somewhere or someone that you are grateful for.
Here's my layout titled, "Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day."
This was a special day indeed! The first time these three were able to be together and to march in the July th Parade. This is one PROUD mom/wife!!!
A pop dot was added under the word for more dimension.
Just below my page title are strips of cardstock, ribbon and bling. Journaling was added below this.
A cardstock bracket is to the left of the photo as well as one photo corner.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications increased last week even as home borrowing costs jumped with interest rates on some 30-year fixed-rate loans reaching their highest levels in more than seven years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.
The Washington-based group's seasonally adjusted index on requests for a loan to buy a home and to refinance an existing home rose 2.9 percent to 352.5 in the week ended Sept. 21.
Interest rates on 30-year conforming mortgages, whose balances are $453,100 or less, averaged 4.97 percent, which was the highest since April 2011. Last week, they averaged 4.88 percent.


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Pendlebury Colliery, usually called Wheatsheaf Colliery after the adjacent public house, was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1846 in Pendlebury near Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

The colliery, sunk in 1846, was owned by Andrew Knowles and Sons and had two ten foot diameter shafts 24 yards apart.>
The colliery originally had pitch pine timber headgear and a winding engine supplied by John Musgrave & Sons of Bolton that operated until 1944.
The colliery was ventilated by furnace until the 20th century when ventilation fans were installed. Wrought iron boilers to raise steam for powering pumps, air compressors and haulage were originally sited near the bottom of No.2 shaft, the upcast shaft. The shaft bottom was reached at 1,775 feet. The colliery accessed several coal seams including the Rams, Crumbouke and Doe mines.
In 1896 the colliery employed 640 men underground and 165 surface workers while in 1923 there were 563 underground and 172 surface workers.

The colliery became part of Manchester Collieries in 1929 and the National Coal Board in 1947. The colliery was connected by tunnel to Newtown Colliery in 1957 but closed in June 1961.

The colliery was situated on the north-east side of Bolton Road (A666), Pendlebury between Carrington Street and City Walk on what is now the Wheatsheaf Industrial Estate.

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This first article isn't just about pretty things but also about how to use them to improve user experience.
These listed below are top notch websites of course, but I'd like to dwell on some small touches that make the difference.
In these examples the form and the function come together beautifully.
Technically speaking it's just a link treatment , is the way it's used that improve the general look and feel and also permit to know at glance what the link is about.
The finesse here is that the colour of the link speaks about the nature of the content: red for Youtube videos, pink for Flickr images, cyan for Twitter statuses and so on.
Not just a mega drop-down menu, but an immediate preview of every section complete with images, weather forecast, news titles and so on. The visitor has high chances to reach what she's looking for with just one click.
To say nothing how this mega drop-down menu is beautifully crafted in visual terms.
The contact form is apparently just on one row. What we'd expect is a scrollbar appears while we are writing . Well this doesn't happen, the textarea grows while we are writing the text.
We saw this behavior so many times on Facebook, but it's really pleasant to see it on a website.
Here we have another contact form beautifully crafted.
The newsletter text field uses the rgba color property to obtain a transparent background that fits better with the website until you don't focus on it. In that moment the text field gets a solid background to help the visitor to fill the form properly.
There are 2 fixed blue bubbles on both sides of the text.
While you scroll the page, the background of the bubbles scrolls highlighting the date on the left and an icon indicating the kind of content on the right.
While scrolling down the page you'll see the sand in the hourglass flows through the narrow tube into the bottom bulb. This gives you an idea of how much content remains to read in the page.
The hourglass here has a double purpose: enhance the concept and drive the visitor.


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Hundreds of Doctors to March to White House to Demand End to Trump Administration's 'Inhumane' Treatment of Migrants
By Chantal Da Silva On 10/18/19 at 12:56 PM EDT
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Hundreds of physicians and healthcare workers from across the country are expected to march to the White House this weekend to protest the Trump administration's "inhumane" treatment of migrants and asylum seekers.
On Friday morning, dozens of physicians with Doctors for Camp Closure, a grassroots organization that sprang up in response to reports on the poor conditions of migrant detention centers in the U.S., made their way to Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress in a bid to convince them to demand the closure of detention "camps."
The doctors are calling for the country to move towards an "alternative to detention" (ATD) program that would allow asylum seekers to wait in the U.S. outside of detention under the care of a sponsor as their immigration cases are processed.
On Saturday, they will take their message directly to the White House, with hundreds of physicians, including some who have made their way from as far as California, joining the march.
Dr. Marie DeLuca, an emergency physician from New York City who helped co-found Doctors for Camp Closure, told Newsweek that many doctors and medical health professionals across the country were horrified by the Trump administration's immigration policies.
"I'm in a field where we see a lot of shocking things," she said. The physician said that when she and other healthcare practitioners saw the fallout of the Trump administration's family separation policy, as well as reports on concerns about the way migrant detainees were being treated, there was a shared "visceral feeling of horror."
"There's such a visceral reaction of horror that I get," she said. "In the emergency department, I have the tools to act and try to fix that, but as a physician in the U.S., right now, it's so hard to find those tools [to help migrant detainees] because of the policies that have been created."
While DeLuca maintained that Doctors for Camp Closure is a bipartisan initiative, she said that physicians were also concerned about the Trump administration's current "Remain in Mexico" policy, which sees migrants and asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico as their immigration cases are processed in the U.S.
"The recent policy decision to keep people on the other side of the border is just dangerous," DeLuca said.
Meanwhile, she said, "deportations are putting people back into dangerous situations. All of that is a human rights violation and it's not ethical and we know the type of toll this can take."
"We're physicians and we've seen what can happen with people when they deal with psychological stressors and physiological stressors like this, so we know the harm this is going to do and we know this has to end," she said.
Fellow Doctors for Camp Closure co-founder Danielle Deines, a pediatrician from Roanoke, Virginia, told Newsweek that she hopes Saturday's march will remind the government that the U.S. has not forgotten about the plight of asylum seekers, even as the national focus on the U.S.-Mexico border has appeared to waver in recent weeks.
"We keep coming back to the fact that there are kids in cages right now and that just feels like something we should be paying more attention to," she said.
"It shouldn't take a bunch pf physicians coming to Washington, D.C. to tell people that we shouldn't keep babies in cages," Deines said.
Doctors, nurses, medical students hold up posters June 23, 2018 at the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, to demand quick reunification of the some 2,700 children with their families. Hundreds of physicians and medical health professionals are expected to join a march to the White House on Saturday to call for the closure of migrant detention camps in the U.S. PAUL RATJE/AFP/Getty
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This quote precedes a dedicated laying-down of the history of Bucca Hall, a wonderful story that can be read here.
The Bucca Hall was opened around the full moon in February 1906. Prices for admission were set at l/6d, Double 2d. Mr. C. F. Neilsen, M.L.A., was invited to perform the ceremony. Six dozen cup saucers and plates were purchased for use together with 2 hams, 14 lbs. of beef, 4 dozen pines and 16 dozen bananas towards supper. Messrs. Hendy and Cogzell were engaged to provide the music and Mr. A. Austin as Master of Ceremonies.
Today, locals in this traditional sugar town are ready to roll out the red carpet and open their doors to the Festival of Small Halls.
Tickets available online here, or locally at the Bucca Hotel, or at Bout Time Music in Bundaberg.


The Fusarium head blight of grain cereals is a significant disease worldwide. In Argentina, high levels of contamination with Fusarium proliferatum have been found in crops. Many strains of the Pseudomonas genus antagonize the growth of fungi by different mechanisms, such as the production of antibiotics, siderophores, volatiles, and extracellular enzymes. In this work, we have designed a new system for studying the growth inhibition of F. proliferatum—namely by volatile compounds produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens MGR12. In both rich and minimal media, the bacterium released volatiles that negatively affected the mycelial growth of that phytopathogenic fungus. These bacterial compounds were analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, but only a few could be identified by comparing their mass spectra with the libraries of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology MS search.
Keywords: Biocontrol; Fusarium; Pseudomonas; Volatiles; Otras Ciencias Biológicas; Ciencias Biológicas; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS.
Tomato is one of the most economically attractive vegetable crops due to its high yields. Diseases cause significant losses in tomato production worldwide. We carried out Polymerase Chain Reaction studies to detect the presence of genes encoding antifungal compounds in the DNA of Pseudomonas putida strain PCI2. We also used liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry to detect and quantify the production of compounds that increase the resistance of plants to diseases from culture supernatants of PCI2. In addition, we investigated the presence of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase in PCI2. Finally, PCI2 was used for inoculation of tomato seeds to study its potential biocontrol activity against Fusarium oxysporum MR193. The obtained results showed that no fragments for the encoding genes of hydrogen cyanide, pyoluteorin, 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol, pyrrolnitrin, or phenazine-1-carboxylic acid were amplified from the DNA of PCI2. On the other hand, PCI2 produced salicylic acid and jasmonic acid in Luria–Bertani medium and grew in a culture medium containing ACC as the sole nitrogen source. We observed a reduction in disease incidence from 53.33 % in the pathogen control to 30 % in tomato plants pre-inoculated with PCI2 as well as increases in shoot and root dry weights in inoculated plants, as compared to the pathogenicity control. This study suggests that inoculation of tomato seeds with P. putida PCI2 increases the resistance of plants to root rot caused by F. oxysporum and that PCI2 produces compounds that may be involved at different levels in increasing such resistance. Thus, PCI2 could represent a non-contaminating management strategy potentially applicable in vegetable crops such as tomato.
Keywords: RHIZOBACTERIA; STRESS; MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; Otras Ciencias Biológicas; Ciencias Biológicas; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS.