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OECD & WELSH NHS — IMPROVING BUT NEEDS TO IMPROVE LIKE REST OF UK NHS
by Jim Gralton
David Cameron notoriously claimed at the April 2014 Welsh Tory Spring Conference that Offa's Dyke had become "the line between life and death" due to the performance of the Welsh NHS. However fortunately for the truth and honest debate, almost to the day the Nuffield Trust published its comparative study "The four health systems of the United Kingdom; how do they compare?". It reported :- However, this latest study ….. reveals that while there are few indicators on which a devolved country does better than England or its North East region, the performance gap between England and the rest of the UK has narrowed in recent years. There is little sign that one country is moving ahead of the others consistently across the available indicators of performance.
Despite being being caught out, the Prime Minister continued to misrepresent the state of the NHS in Wales. By October 2014, when challenged about the state of the English NHS, he demanded that " …Let's have an OECD inquiry … I want a comparison between the Labour NHS in Wales (and England).." He went on to say that Labour was " ..totally terrified of (its) .. failures in Wales on the NHS." Indeed Monmouth Tory MP, David Davies, went so far as to suggest that the Welsh Government was doing everything it could to delay the production of such a report.
However despite all this rhetoric the report, "OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: United Kingdom 2016", was published in February 2016. And it concluded that from the limited country specific data available "… no consistent picture emerges of one of the United Kingdom's four health systems performing better than the other." In short, again, there was no evidence to support Cameron's claims about the relative performance of the Welsh NHS.
The line between fact and fiction.
In his response to the publication of the review the Welsh Health Minister, Prof Mark Drakeford said "This report is the line between fact and fiction. Any claims of one nation having a second-rate NHS compared to others simply do not reflect the facts. The time has come for a real, mature debate about the future of our health services." Can we expect Mr Cameron please take note?
While the OECD showed that each administration needs to improve its performance, in relation to Wales it concludes that continuously improving quality of care is deeply established and widely shared across the Welsh health system. And where things are not going well, the Review felt that the Welsh Government's "Escalation and Integration Framework" was a robust tool for quality assurance and intervention.
These are important messages as for most of the last half decade Welsh Tories have been arguing for a total "Keogh style" review of the NHS in Wales with the implication that the NHS in Wales is in some sort of systemic melt-down similar to the situation in Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The OECD review shows no evidence to support this denigration of the Welsh health service.
How the planning system is working.
In stating that all of the UK shows an improving picture, there are still a number of areas where the NHS does need to do better. This applies in different measure across all of the four administrations not least in Wales.
The OECD Review reports that Wales no longer operates an internal market but uses a "planned" system underpinned by the principles of "prudent health care". While the prudent health care principles give an important sense of direction to the Welsh NHS, the under-performance of health boards linked to an imbalance in favour of local autonomy means that there is room for improvement in planning health care delivery.
A greater sense of national purpose is needed which could be achieved by butressing the prudent health care approach with a clear action plan and by strengthening the use of the three year Integrated Medium Term Plans (IMPT).
Inequalities and primary care.
Welsh Health Boards are still adjusting and learning about their new planning role. The Review believes there is a need to give an increased emphasis to primary care as part of a wider agenda of tacking health inequalities. Both these areas have been judged to suffer from relative neglect under the new "planing" regime. This could be a consequence of the relatively weak role that the primary care sector and patients have in the planning system e.g. there are no GPs on the Health Boards by right.
Developing the role of primary care clusters (PCCs), covering populations of 50-250,000, could have a significant potential in this regard. And the latest investment by the Welsh Government in PCCs is an important step forward. The clusters will provide opportunities to broaden the range of services and expertise that patients may access in a primary care setting. In addition the clusters provide a workable population base for more sensitive health care planning where the local expertise of front-line clinicians can be usefully captured by the planning system.
Patient power.
The OECD seems to take the somewhat ideological view that the lack of a market in health care in Wales diminishes patient choice and influence compared to English. However, in making this point, it is acceptes that the geography and demography of Wales does not allow for a ready translation of the English experience.
Faced with this lack of "patient power" it recommends a strengthening of patients' voices. More effort should be spent on capturing the patient experience. While coming at it from a different perspective, this is in line with the SHA Cymru view that we should " use the visible hand of public accountability to improve standards rather than rely on the invisible hand of the market".
Wales has retained its Community Health Councils as the patients' voice within the NHS. It has been through a number of changes to improve its effectiveness down the years thought it is still debatable that they are fully fit for purpose. The Review recognises the need for CHCs to be more effective in the way they hold the service to account and articulate the views of patients. In improving its focus on these tasks there is a question as to whether CHCs add any value to NHS quality by continuing with their on-site inspection activities.
Collaboration rather than abusive rhetoric.
The four health administrations are doing things differently across the UK. New and innovative ways of doing things are being developed. The OECD acknowledges that this diversity provides an important learning opportunity that is being neglected by all four administrations. In part the lack of an agreed set of performance parameters and a lack of professional and political will is preventing this from happening.
Rather than using these differences as a cynical party political ploy, as the Tories have been doing, this form of engagement and collaboration seems a better way for the the National Health Service across the UK.
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Master Plan Aims to Revitalize Riverside Neighborhood in Chengdu
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LWK+Partners won the international planning and urban design competition for Mengzhuiwan Urban Regeneration's master plan in Chengdu three years ago. Image credit: LWK+Partners
03 JUNE 2021 | CHENGDU, CHINA
Mengzhuiwan, a riverfront neighbourhood in Chenghua district of Chengdu, is mainly residential and has little interaction with the river that flows through it. LWK + PARTNERS'
regeneration master plan aims to transform it into a beating heart of the community with a fresh, vibrant urban identity.
The Mengzhuiwan regeneration master plan is inspired by musical movement.
Programmatic spaces are planned around the design concept, "Symphony of Dreams," to
preserve and enliven the area's art, culture, entertainment, and commerce.
Three existing landmarks of the area will be renovated into three urban anchor nodes with new programming and redesigned façades.
The 339-metre West Pearl Tower is the central landmark and will be conceived as the
"Tower of Dream." The façade will be redesigned to incorporate programmable LED panels.
The State Taxation Administration Building will become the "Gateway of Nostalgia." The cluster of public buildings and factories will be revamped into a mixed-use complex of hotels, restaurants, exhibition and studio spaces for creative industries. While the structure will remain, the façades will be updated with LEDs and balconies.
The Tong Mei Building will be positioned as the "Window to the World" where an internationally branded hotel is housed. The new façade will feature perforated metal panels and hanging planters.
In homage to the area's culture and heritage, the master plan references the
surrounding cultural and industrial facilities of the Chenghua district with buildings and landscape revitalized in a modern-industrial style. Traditional elements associated with the factory environment such as copper, wood, exposed concrete, bricks and perforated materials are combined with steel and glass to articulate building façades, interior
decorations and streetscape.
In addition to upgrading the built environment, the renewal process also includes reviving the natural ecology eroded by previous processes of urbanization.
Mengzhuiwan's regeneration plan involves a 2.5-kilometer riverfront site along the Jin River, making the waterscape a central design element.
The pinnacle of the waterfront experience is an elevated walkway called the "Fantasy Silk Road," which connects multiple landmarks and points of interest.
For more on this story, go to LWK + Partners.
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New Retail Complex Reaches Completion in Hong Kong
The mall extension will offer retail space for 50 new shops.
23 MARCH 2021 | HONG KONG, CHINA
A vibrant all-embracing urban center is often regarded as necessary for building a strong sense of identity and sense of place among residents and visitors; this is the key
consideration for LWK + PARTNERS as it works as Authorized Person and Executive
Architect, in collaboration with Arquitectonica as Design Architect for Citygate Outlets New
Extension and The Silveri Hong Kong —MGallery in Hong Kong, China. The firm's interior
design team was also responsible for design and implementation of the hotel's common areas and execution works of interiors of retail arcade.
The complex includes an extension of the existing Citygate Outlets mall and The Silveri Hong Kong—MGallery, a new five star boutique hotel, at Tung Chung Town Lot (TCTL) no. 11.
The complex is located in Tung Chung, a district in north Lantau Island of Hong Kong. In the 2017 Policy Address by the city's Chief Executive, the overall blueprint for Lantau's
development and conservation was set out as "development for the north, conversation for the south."
Tung Chung is the "Gateway to Hong Kong" from the international airport, as well as a popular recreational destination filled with abundant greenery. The Citygate Outlets extension serves as a connectivity hub for the district, offering an extra 31,800 square meters of contemporary retail spaces for adding more than 50 brand new shops to the existing mall. With a public transport terminal at the ground floor, the project is also close to the MTR providing easy access to downtown Hong Kong.
Located in proximity to Tung Chung MTR station and Ngong Ping 360 cable car, the new retail complex aims to act as an integrated transport hub to provide convenient and direct interchange services for the visitors and shoppers, and effectively link up dispersed
components of the whole community. All main entrances are strategically planned to draw local residents and nearby tourists from all directions, giving a boost to street-level activity.
Internal circulations are carefully orchestrated for a connected experience between the existing and new portions of the mall, which are connected through carefully planned and convenient points on levels two to four.
The atrium is defined by three voids and two skylights, with changing shapes and sensible
disposition on strategic floors for enhancement of lively shopping environment. As daylight
penetrates down to the levels below, rays from the sun interact with the elliptical voids to create an interplay of light and shadows.
The Silveri Hong Kong - MGallery takes up the upper part of the building from level five onwards, marking Accor Hotel's first MGallery by Sofitel, anchoring around 12,300 square meters of lifestyle hotel accommodation in the city.
Given its relatively large building mass, one of the challenges was to break down the
massive building bulk with articulated façade treatments and progressive building setbacks along the height of the building. A curved curtain wall façade and aluminium cladding panels are adopted, wrapped by bespoke parallelogram aluminium strips in a vivid mix of colors to produce a refreshing, unique, and dynamic character.
Part of the building is set back to create an area of landscaped street environment, enlivening the overall streetscape with open spaces for public enjoyment. Terraced
landscape decks on levels three, four, six, seven and nine offer a different view captured at each level. At level five, the new extension is connected to the Roof Jungle of the existing mall, ensuring a well-coordinated interflow of traffic.
A holistic sustainability strategy is delivered through the use of a pragmatic "fabric first"
approach. Passive design features, smart technologies, and select materials are introduced to the building orientation, envelope, operations and maintenance, and energy
Renewable sources are considered wherever possible, while natural ventilation and daylight reception are optimized through the skylight and designated curtain wall façades for energy efficiency. Heat transfer is controlled through the building envelope. All these serve to
address land use, planning requirements, whole life costs and carbon emissions while attaching great value to indoor environmental quality, which has a direct impact on the health and well-being of building occupants.
The project is provisionally awarded a silver BEAM Plus certification by Hong Kong Green Building Council. Sustainable building design and energy efficiency provisions are to be implemented in order to contribute to a low carbon emission community in Tung Chung.
Intensive efforts were made to mitigate noise impacts at levels five to seven, where hotel guestrooms are located adjacent to the retail area and cinema boxes. Possible noise,
structural-borne and airborne, and vibration implications on the guestrooms will be incurred
from fit-out works at shops normally during the night-time. Guestrooms are structurally
detached from the main structural carcass frame and prefabricated with a certain degree of interior fit-out works off-site. Sound absorbing material was also used for the area near the cinema box to reduce internal background noise level. Acoustic attenuator and silencers were applied for MEP piling, spring isolators and the floating plinth system.
Adding to the complexity and challenge is the concurrent progress of the superstructure construction at the new phase of the mall at TCTL no. 11 and demolition of the existing portion of Citygate Outlets at TCTL no. 2 above the existing public transport terminal, which maintained uninterrupted operations. This was partly tackled through intensive interfacing coordination within the whole team of consultants and contractors between the new and existing mall in terms of structure, building services and circulation. Traffic consultants were appointed to work closely with the team to draw up strategic arrangements to facilitate easy and safe access for both the general public and site staff.
For more on this story, go to World Architecture News.
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Zhongshan Harbour Shopping Mall and Apartment Designs Unveiled
The development aims to be integrated with surrounding water features, including wetlands and a river.
19 FEBRUARY 2021 | ZHONGSHAN, CHINA
Designs of the two most prominent components of Zhongshan OCT Harbour in Zhongshan
were unveiled recently. The development is a large-scale cultural-tourism project in Shiqi
aimed to be a recreational destination in the west coast of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-
Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). They are its riverfront retail mall, which is expected to be the
site's visual landmark, and the apartment blocks, which defines the topmost part of the
overall skyline.
Designed by LWK+Partners, the practice completed the master plan for Zhongshan OCT Harbour in 2020, and is a response to urban recreational demands, business needs, river ecology, healthy living, and sustainable development goals. Different components are connected by an experiential pedestrian bridge, which serves as the primary circulation route. Like the master plan, the architecture of the mall and apartments pays respect to the local waterscape through a sensible mix of tradition and modernity, with the aim to recreate Zhongshan's version of the glamorous Shanghai Bund.
As the primary commercial icon of the whole development, the shopping mall is situated on the southern end of the site as a traffic driver, looking towards wetlands across the river. It also marks the start of a waterfront retail promenade and festive avenue. The scheme makes connections with the gourmet street across the river and with the bridge, synergising circulations and beautiful views across both riverbanks to create the Bund of Zhongshan –an experiential high street combining culture, entertainment and landscape.
Five interactive urban spaces are devised in an interplay of natural, cultural, commercial, and social elements, offering immersive, multisensory experiences on water, on land and in the air. They engage visitors and encourage them to explore the space, opening up a range of urban dialogues and possibilities. These diverse experiences also serve the function of stimulating the people flow within the irregularly-shaped development site.
At the west side of the site is a line of three apartment blocks topping the whole
development's dynamic skyline. Towers are arranged in a single line to allow the widest possible visual corridors while giving the apartments the best views. Not only does this enhances the living experience, but residents will also be able to establish greater connections with the neighborhood. The tower design takes cue from the graceful movements of yachts and sea waves, in resonance with the aquatic associations of the master plan. The buildings feature curvilinear façades, slender horizontal overhangs and an ocean palette, augmented by distinctive tower crowns mimicking the form of waves as they hit the shore and forming a unique silhouette for the site.
For more on this story, go to Building HK.
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Obama's meeting on race relations labelled 'a farce'
Ms Erica Garner, whose father died in 2014 after a New York City police officer placed him in a chokehold, blasted as a sham an event led by President Barack Obama this week to promote respect and civility after fatal confrontations between the police and African- Americans.PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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Daughter of man who died after a police chokehold says event exploited black pain
WASHINGTON • A town hall-style meeting led by US President Barack Obama to promote respect and civility after fatal confrontations between the police and African-Americans prompted a bitter outburst from the daughter of Mr Eric Garner, who died in 2014 after a New York City police officer placed him in a chokehold.
At the conclusion of Thursday's gathering, Ms Erica Garner angrily yelled that she had been deprived of a chance to question Mr Obama. She demanded - and later received - a private audience with him.
"I was railroaded!" she shouted, noting that the event fell exactly two years after her father's death. "That's what I have to do? A black person has to yell to be heard?"
Ms Garner also took to Twitter to complain that tough questions had been banned. She condemned the event as a "farce" that was "nothing short of full exploitation of black pain and grief". "They shut out ALL real and hard questions," she added, calling the exchange "a sham".
Reporters allowed into the theatre in Washington where the event was taped by ABC News witnessed the outburst, which Mr Obama's staff swiftly tried to defuse.
Mr Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, later said the President had visited briefly with Ms Garner, "who was upset that she didn't get called on to ask a question".
The episode highlights the anger consuming activists and advocates on both sides of the divisions over race and law enforcement in the US, and the challenges Mr Obama faces in fostering a peaceful conversation about bridging the divide.
The meeting was the latest in a series of events Mr Obama has taken part in this week to respond to killings in Louisiana and Minnesota of black men by police, and an attack days later in Dallas in which a black assailant claiming he wanted to kill white officers fatally shot five.
Mr Obama fielded questions on racial justice and policing as he worked to model the kind of conversation he has argued must take place throughout the United States to defuse tensions. Those rifts, he conceded this week, are likely to worsen before they improve.
On Wednesday, he convened a lengthy and at times contentious meeting at the White House where police representatives, elected officials and civil rights advocates aired their grievances against one another and grasped for solutions to bridge what all sides conceded was a gaping divide.
"The striking aspect of it was how different people's perspectives were," said Mr James Pasco Jr, the executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, who attended the marathon session.
"I was really struck - I went to bed that night thinking about it and woke up thinking about it in the morning - what a tremendous challenge it's going to be to repair the damage and change the perspectives that have been built up over generations."
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 16, 2016, with the headline 'Obama's meeting on race relations labelled 'a farce''. Print Edition | Subscribe


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Za druge 9. korpuse glejte 9. korpus.

9. korpus (tudi Kninski korpus) je bil pehotni korpus v sestavi Jugoslovanske ljudske armade.

Organizacija
 1991
 poveljstvo
 9. bataljon vojaške policije
 9. bataljon za zveze
 9. dopolnilni bataljon
 9. sanitetni bataljon
 9. avtotransportni bataljon
 9. oklepni bataljon
 9. mešani topniški polk
 180. motorizirana brigada
 557. mešani protioklepni topniški polk
 332. komunikacijski polk
 594. inženirski polk
 3. brigada teritorialne obrambe

Poveljstvo
 Poveljniki
 Tomislav Trajčevski (?-1989)
 Spiro Niković (1989-?)
 Vladimir Vuković (?-junij 1991)
 Ratko Mladić (junij 1991-?)

 Načelniki štaba
 Ratko Mladić (?-junij 1991)

Viri in opombe

Glej tudi

 seznam korpusov JLA

Vojaške enote, ukinjene leta 1993
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Q: Python: Add or remove timezone hours from a timestamp and get actual time In Python, I need to get the actual time of a given string timestamp converted to a different timezone without timezone information. I am using pytz to do this. But all I get is the given DateTime with the timezone information appended to it.
Base datetime : 2020-05-29 19:00:00 (A string datetime without timezone info)
Requirement: When this time is converted to (US Zipcode 90071) -0700 timezone,
it should return "2020-05-29 12:00:00", not "2020-05-29 19:00:00-0700"
Code:
import pytz
from datetime import datetime
from uszipcode import SearchEngine
from timezonefinder import TimezoneFinder

date_time_obj = datetime.strptime("2020-05-29 19:00:00", '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
zip = "90071"

search = SearchEngine(simple_zipcode=True)
zipcode = search.by_zipcode(zip)
zipcode = zipcode.to_dict()
tf = TimezoneFinder(in_memory=True)
timezone = tf.timezone_at(lng=zipcode['lng'], lat=zipcode['lat'])
tz = pytz.timezone(timezone)
new_timestamp = tz.localize(date_time_obj)

new_timestamp_str = datetime.strftime(new_timestamp, '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')

But this returns 2020-05-29 19:00:00.000000-0700. I need to retrieve a DateTime object/string with the actual time shown in that timezone without a timezone chunk attached to the end of the DateTime.

A: It appears that your original date and time are in UTC.  So for localize to work properly, you have to start with the proper timezone attached.
date_time_obj = datetime.strptime("2020-05-29 19:00:00", '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

Then you can remove it again after the conversion:
return date_time_obj.astimezone(tz).replace(tzinfo=None)

A: Assuming your "Base datetime" refers to UTC, you have to add a tzinfo=UTC first before you convert to another timezone. Also, avoid overwriting built-ins like zip. Example using dateutil:
from datetime import datetime
import dateutil
from uszipcode import SearchEngine
from timezonefinder import TimezoneFinder

date_time_obj = datetime.strptime("2020-05-29 19:00:00", '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
zipcode = "90071"

search = SearchEngine(simple_zipcode=True)
zipcode = search.by_zipcode(zipcode)
zipcode = zipcode.to_dict()
tf = TimezoneFinder(in_memory=True)
timezone = tf.timezone_at(lng=zipcode['lng'], lat=zipcode['lat'])

# localize to UTC first
date_time_obj = date_time_obj.replace(tzinfo=dateutil.tz.UTC)

# now localize to timezone of the zipcode:
new_timestamp = date_time_obj.astimezone(dateutil.tz.gettz(timezone))

new_timestamp_str = datetime.strftime(new_timestamp, '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')
# '05/29/2020 12:00:00'

If you need to use pytz, make sure to use localize instead of replace (even though UTC is an exception).
Sidenote: If your "Base datetime" refers to local time (operating system), you could obtain that timezone by
import time
import dateutil
localtzname = time.tzname[time.daylight]
tz = dateutil.tz.gettz(localtzname)

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Minted in one Troy ounce of .999 pure silver, each proof-quality coin comes displayed in a museum-quality presentation box, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.


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Home News Deputy Special Prosecutor nominee gets unanimous approval
Deputy Special Prosecutor nominee gets unanimous approval
Steven Effah
The Appointments Committee of Parliament has unanimously approved the nomination of the deputy Special Prosecutor nominee, Cynthia Jane Naa- Korshie Lamptey. Chairman of the Committee, Joseph Osei Owusu, told Journalists the report on the vetting of Ms. Lamptey will soon be ready and presented to the House for approval, TV3's Godfred Tanam reported from Parliament barely an hour after the vetting of the nominee ended in Accra on Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_85209" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]
Joseph Osei Owusu[/caption] READ: I won't be Martin Amidu's 'puppet' – Cynthia Lamptey to critics With almost 30 years standing as a lawyer, Ms. Lamptey was on April 26 nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the Deputy Special Prosecutor. READ: Akufo-Addo nominates Martin Amidu's Deputy Her nomination was presented to Parliament and was subsequently referred to the Appointments Committee that has the mandate to vet the candidate to establish her suitability for the anti-graft job. When approved, Ms Lamptey will assist Martin Alamisi Benz Kaizer Amidu at the Office of the Special Prosecutor. The two coincidentally worked together at the Attorney General's Department in the late Atta Mills's government. She was part of the prosecution of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as well as the former National Service Scheme Executive Director, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, who was charged for allegedly stealing GHS86.9 million. There were reports that former President John Dramani Mahama sacked her in 2015 for non-performance. Ms Lamptey will be the first Deputy Special Prosecutor if approved. By the statutes establishing the Office, the Deputy Special Prosecutor shall hold her office on the same terms and conditions of service as a Justice of the High Court except that the tenure of office shall be for a non-renewable tenure of seven years.
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Q: Jenkins: settings for Gerrit Trigger problems I've installed the plugin Gerrit Trigger on Jenkins cos I need to start automatically the building when a developer in the team pushes something on the repository (relative to a specific project). I followed the settings here:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Gerrit+Trigger
The test connection is ok. Anyway when something is pushed the building doesn't "trigger". The only thing I can see is:
Under "Manage Jenkins" -> The connection to Gerrit is down! Check your settings and the Gerrit server.
any idea?
thanks
randomize
BTW I got this:
BTW I got this: Command "git fetch -t git@github.com:somewhere/MyProject.git $GERRIT_REFSPEC" returned status code 128: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref $GERRIT_REFSPEC
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
 ERROR: Could not fetch from any repository
 FATAL: Could not fetch from any repository
 hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not fetch from any repository
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1008)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:968)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:758)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:740)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:968)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1184)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:537)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:425)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1376)

A: There is trick described on the Gerrit plugin page:
Normally when you have configured a job to be triggered by Gerrit you can't use the "Build Now" link anymore since your builds are dependent on information from Gerrit, especially if you are using the Git plugin to checkout your code in the workspace.
You can get around this limitation if you for example want to use the same job to build the master branch at some point. If you are using the Git plugin do the following
Add a String parameter called GERRIT_REFSPEC with the default value refs/heads/master
Using this trick will enable you to build, but no results will be sent to Gerrit since tit is not triggered by it.

A: That doesn't work with the Gerrit trigger, because then the variable $GERRIT_REFSPEC isn't set. If you want to manually trigger a changeset from Gerrit, you have to use the "Query and Trigger Gerrit Patches". There you can search for open changes in Gerrit and build them.
You should also notice, that a build is only triggered, if you have pushed the changes to the review branches in Gerrit, e.g. a refs/for/ reference. If you pushed directly to the branches (e. g. refs/heads/master), because you don't want to do code review, the Gerrit trigger doesn't work. You would have to use one of the Gerrit hooks, that calls a URL which starts a build or let the build job poll your Git repository.

A: in our case, we had to restart the jenkins service. this looks to be a bug with the gerrit trigger plugin (we're on 2.27.5)

A: You Need to start the gerrit server from the jenkin>> gerrit trigger> click on status icon.


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Ney Costa Santos (Rio de Janeiro, ) é um letrista brasileiro.

É irmão do compositor e cantor Marcelo Costa Santos, parceiro e intérprete de muitas de suas canções, assim como Orlando Morais, Renato Braz e Gal Costa, entre outros artistas.

Obras
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Balanço das horas (c/ Marcelo Costa Santos)
Bom (c/ Marcelo Costa Santos)
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General Info My Story So Far Where I Grew Up My Car Page
Part 1: Being Diagnosed With Cancer Part 2: Induction Treatment Part 3: Surgery Part 4: Consolidation Treatment Part 5: Life After Cancer
Computer Pages
howden.nz History My Computers My Past Interest In Computing
Joke Emails Joke Images A Letter From the Future My TV Memories
howden.nz History
In 1998 while studying towards a Certificate in Business Computing we were asked to build a website about ourselves. Our websites were hosted on a Linux web server located onsite at Southland Polytechnic (now known as SIT). At the end of the course I decided to keep the site I built running and continue to build on the original site I created in 1998.
The name of the website has changed several times from 'Blair Howden's Homepage' in 1998 to 'The World of Blair Howden' in 1999 and from 2001 to 2019 howden.net.nz after registering the domain name of the same name. Today this website is known as howden.nz.
This site has seen various incarnations over the years and has been developed using WYSIWYG tools, hand coded in HTML, existed as a CMS site and Wiki site, hand coded again in HTML this time with CSS and coded using PHP. This articles looks at how this site has progressed over the years.
My first site was a mixture of pages written in HTML, using the PICO editor on the Linux box my site was hosted on, and some pages were written using Frontpage 98 and uploaded using FTP.
This is the opening page for my first website known simply as Blair Howden's Homepage. Scrolling down the left frame had links to a few of my favourite sites.
The original site had an email form, this was simple form that emailed from the visitors email client. Clicking on Submit would send the form to my email address.
My original page included 'Page of the Month' where you could see my favourite site for the month. I usually picked a site related to something that was going on in the news or online. I ceased the 'Page of the Month' page in 2001 when the site became howden.net.nz
At the end of 1998 I gave the site a new look for Christmas 1998 during the month of December. This is the only year I have completely redesigned the whole site for Christmas.
After Christmas 1998 I decided I didn't want to go back to my old site (having given the site a temporary redesign for Christmas) so I decided to build a new site fresh for 1999. My website was moved from the Linux box at Polytech to homepage space provided by my ISP at the time, Ihug.
After deciding to construct a new site in January 1999 I got to work to build something totally different. I decided to name my new site 'The World of Blair Howden.'
This is the opening page in the second half of 1999 where a countdown timer to the Year 2000 was included. This page allowed you to choose 4 different viewing styles. The viewing styles were "Graphical" which used a Windows 98 style theme, "Classic" which was much like the 1998 site, "No Frames" for those who had Internet Explorer 1 or 2 where there was no support for frames, "Text" for thoese who used a text based browser.
This is 'The World of Blair Howden' shown in the Graphical Mode. The site used a Windows 98 style theme where all links looked like icons.
This was the Classic Mode where my website could be viewed in a similar way to my original site. Links to other sites were available like on the original site and you could even log into your Hotmail account.
I wanted to make sure everyone could view my site so users with a browser that didn't support frames were catered for. Frames websites were quite common in the late nineties and back then some users were using Internet Explorer 1 or 2 which did not support frames.
I even catered for users of text based browsers such as Lynx.
I decided to create a page about my experience with computers, this page showed a timeline of how I grew up learning about computers. Some of these pages can still be found on this website.
The World of Blair Howden in it's original form only lasted a year after I decided to give the site another redesign. Don't ask me what I was thinking when I decided to put Australia and New Zealand on the new logo. I believe I was consider going over to Australia once I finished my course like many other New Zealanders have chosen to do.
This was the new opening page which simply showed the logo and now there were only two viewing options, graphics or no graphics.
This was the top of a typical page on the new The World of Blair Howden. As you can see I am still using frames on the left but no links to other websites down the side, these links are now on their own page. At the top of the page simply had the words The World of Blair Howden and if you click on the second image you will see every page at the bottom had just the logo part of The World of Blair Howden.
Another new year and I once again decided it was time to create a new site. I decided this year to register my own domain, I decided on howden.net.nz as I believe howden.co.nz was already taken. The domain howden.net.nz was registered on the 24th March 2001 and I decided I would name my website as howden.net.nz.
The original howden.net.nz site actually looks less detailed than my previous sites but something I prided myself on with this site is the fact that the whole thing was written using Windows Notepad instead of Frontpage. Also it was a very small and efficient site, the actual site used less than 1MB of disk space. Frames are now gone in place of tables, most of the pages from The World of Blair Howden I moved over to howden.net.nz except for the Top Page of the Month page. The evaluation page was replaced with a Guestbook I wrote in PHP.
During the middle of the year I gave the existing howden.net.nz a slightly new look but retaining most of the original site. I changed the howden.net.nz logo to something slightly different and this logo is still used today.
This is the 2002 version of howden.net.nz I have now merged the Computer Page and the page About Me into one section and dropped a few of the computer pages that I actually reintroduced in 2003. I also added the Joke Email section that can be found on this site on the menu under Fun Stuff.
This year saw the most significant changes to howden.net.nz. The first change was at the start of the year when I decided that it was no longer worth paying for hosting my website and I was going to completely ditch the whole site until my flatmate at the time, Jeff, suggested I host the site on the Linux box that was running 24/7 in our hallway and always online thanks to our ADSL Internet connection. A few months after shifting my site to our own server Jeff showed me a page he created using phpNuke, this page actually looked like a professionally created website and I decided I would give phpNuke a go.
The menu on the left is a standard phpNuke menu. I renamed the Content item on the menu to About Me and this opened all my pages showing information About Me and my computers. Items in the current menu open up pages in the Content section. In August I moved out of the flat I was living in and as a result I had to host my site elsewhere, this time I opted to host with KiwiWebHost.
After being diagnosed with Cancer at the end of 2004 I made a decision to include a diary of my treatment on my website. While I was going through my treatment my mum was keeping a diary, two diaries actually. One with all the medical details such as what doctors had to say how I was feeling and so on, the other diary was a personal one and my mum was talking at the time of using the information in both diarys to write something from a mothers point of view. While this never happened I got to thinking I should also put together a diary so about 5 months into my treatment one night sitting with the laptop in hospital I started writing a recollection of events as I remember them using the diary mum had been keep to help jog my memory. I figured the best place to publish this diary was on the web and since I already my own site all I needed to do was add the diary into my site.
Around 2007 I found myself using Wikipedia quite often and contributing content to article. I had this idea of converting my website to a Wiki based website which would allow registered users to contribute content to my website the same way the public contribute to Wikipedia. This did open up the risk of my site being vandalised but funny enough I had more issues with my site being hacked when I was using Php Nuke.
howden.net.nz goes back to basics. At the end of 2008 I decided to scrap the Wiki based site and go back to a hand coded HTML, it had been 10 years since I had written a site in HTML and not being up with the play I coded this site using depricated HTML code and no style sheet. During the middle of 2009 I decided to move the site back to my own server as by now my server was online 24x7, I also added a mail server to my internal server so I wasn't paying for email as well. Also during the second half of 2009 I returned to study and developed my first website for someone else, this website was for the Southern Pride Lions Club and for this website I decided to use PHP. This website contained a login area where other members of the Lions club could login and make changes to content on the pages. This website remained online until 2012 when a newer site was built by another member of the club, the club closed down at the end of 2013.
The work done on Southern Pride Lions Clubs website the previous year then prompted me to give howden.net.nz a refreshed look and update the site to use more modern HTML code, Stylesheets and was now written in PHP. The work also was a practice run for the next website I built for someone else, in 2010 for my third year project on my course I developed a website for Wellington radio station Hit Radio X105. The website design was in line with the websites of competiting and included a login area where staff at the radio station could login and make changes to content such as annoucers on the radio station and contained an easy way to include content such as YouTube videos and their PodCast. Unfortunately the website created by myself never went live, the radio station went off the air in September 2010. I still finished the website and was allowed to pass the paper as this was an event out of our our control.
For the next 6 years the look of howden.net.nz remained unchanged, I was happy with the design of this site so saw no need to change it. It wasn't until about 2014 I considered updating the look to follow more recent trends of giving webpages a more flatter look. A work colleague showed me how he was able to quickly design a site using Bootstrap CSS so I decided to replace the exisitng CSS on howden.net.nz to use Bootstrap CSS.
In 2014 top level .nz domains became available, at this point I tried to register howden.nz but couldn't as this domain was in conflict as someone else had registered howden.co.nz. It took until the end of 2017 before that conflict was resolved and I could register howden.nz. In 2019 I decided to rename the site to howden.nz and give the sight a slight refresh.
© 2023 howden.net.nz
Site created by Blair Howden


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title: Rule no-negated-in-lhs
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# Disallow negated left operand of `in` operator (no-negated-in-lhs)

## Rule Details

This rule is raised to highlight a potential error. Commonly, when a developer intends to write

```js
if(!(a in b)) {
    // do something
}
```

they will instead write

```js
if(!a in b) {
    // do something
}
```

If one intended the original behaviour, the left operand should be explicitly coerced to a string like below.

```js
if(('' + !a) in b) {
    // do something
}
```

The following patterns are considered problems:

```js
/*eslint no-negated-in-lhs: 2*/

if(!a in b) {       /*error The 'in' expression's left operand is negated*/
    // do something
}
```

The following patterns are not considered problems:

```js
/*eslint no-negated-in-lhs: 2*/

if(!(a in b)) {
    // do something
}

if(('' + !a) in b) {
    // do something
}
```

## When Not To Use It

Never.

## Further Reading

None.

## Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 0.1.2.

## Resources

* [Rule source](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/tree/master/lib/rules/no-negated-in-lhs.js)
* [Documentation source](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/tree/master/docs/rules/no-negated-in-lhs.md)


Having loved Horses all my life it was only natural I found another way to be around them.
So I have spent the last 30 plus years taking photos of them.
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Charles O. Van Gorder, III, "Chuck" of Brasstown, NC, passed away peacefully at age 76 on the morning of Sunday, October 30,2022.
Born on January 29, 1946 in Hackensack, NJ, Chuck was the son of late Dr. Charles O. Van Gorder and Helen Lockerby Van Gorder. He grew up in Andrews, NC, where he attended public school, then graduated high school after two years at Miami Military Academy in Miami, FL. After a few years in college, Chuck joined the Army. He served in Vietnam from 1968-1969 as a Ranger with the 101st Airborne. He was wounded in action on July 18, 1969, and was awarded The Purple Heart, the Combat Infantry Men's Badge, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Serice Medal, Republic Vietnam Campaign Medal, and a Parachutist Badge. After recovery at Walter Reed Hospital, he returned home. Chuck received a Degree in Nursing from Georgia State University, followed by a Degree in Business from Mars Hill University. He worked at Sam Jones Realty in Andrews until retirement. Chuck was a member of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, where he served on the Vestry. He showed his compassion for his community through on going involvement with the District Memorial Hospital Board, the Smokey Mountain Shrine Club of the Oasis Shrine Temple, The VFW, Gideons, Matt's Ministry Food Pantry, Outward Bound Board, Red Cross Blood Drives, and as a Boy Scout Leader. He was a warm, loving and giving husband, son, brother, and uncle. One of Chuck's joys was gathering every 4th of July with his Vietnam Brothers, with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. He loved the Atlanta Braves, movies, music, and sharing great food with family and friends.
Surviving is his wife, Rebecca Ledford Van Gorder; sisters, Suzanne Van Gorder of Andrews, and Catherine Odom and husband, Doug of Brevard, NC; and two nephews, Chris Kip, and Matt Kip, both of Columbia, SC.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 am Saturday, November 12, 2022 at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Hayesville with Father Bill Breedlove officiating.
Military graveside rites will be conducted at 2 pm at Valleytown Cemetery on Saturday, November 12, 2022 by the American Legion Post #96, Murphy, American Legion Post 532 Hayesville, VFW Post 6812, Hayesville, and the Marine Corp League, Marble.
In lieu of flowers, please send monetary donations in memory of Charles Van Gorder to Oasis Temple Shriners Hospital for Children, 604 Doug Mayes Place, Charlotte, NC 28262 or to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church.
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United States Star Carli Lloyd Sets Women's World Cup Scoring Record
The United States easily reached the last 16 of the Women's World Cup as they produced another commanding display to beat Chile in Paris.
Early in the first half, Chile almost equalized after Lloyd's first goal on a well-designed set piece. Lloyd is playing in her fourth World Cup and now has 10 World Cup goals and moves into third all-time for the USA (Abby Wambach has 14 and Michelle Akers 12).
With the win, the USWNT cliched a spot in the knockout stage.
With her first goal in the 11th minute, Lloyd set a record to become the first player to score in six consecutive Women's World Cup appearances.
Chile lost its opening match of the World Cup to Sweden, 2-0.
Jill Ellis swapped seven different players in her starting lineup on Sunday and made enough substitutions that every single field player has earned playing time through two matches-including 20-year-old Tierna Davidson (two assists) and 31-year-old Jessica McDonald, who both made their Women's World Cup debuts. There's a chance that with Morgan, Rapinoe and Heath the USA could have defeated Chile by six goals, but having those stars even more rested for what the team hopes is a seven-game tournament run should be an advantage.
"I think we would have definitely had a couple more in there if she had not come up with those big saves", Lloyd said. "We knew Endler was always going to keep them in the mix". The U.S. defeated Chile 3-0 before a sell-out crowd in Paris. Carli Lloyd got the scoring started early with a handsome left-footed strike from the top of the penalty area in the 11th minute.
The United States set records for goals and margin of victory against Thailand. Davidson is the youngest player to start for the United States in the World Cup since Tiffany Roberts against Norway in 1995. Lloyd is the oldest USA player who turns 37 next month.
The second goal came in the 26th minute as Ertz met a corner from the right with a brilliant near-post header which Chile goalkeeper Christiane Endler got a touch to but could not keep out.
Former Vice-President Joe Biden was among the US team's well-wishers before the sold-out game at Parc des Princes stadium. Biden, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, referenced the team's lawsuit against U.S. Soccer alleging gender discrimination and seeking equitable pay. The U.S. never let up after that.
The United States' final match in group play with be Thursday against Sweden (3 p.m. ET). It is the first meeting between the two teams since Sweden ousted the American from the quarterfinals at the 2016 Olympics. The nation wraps up the group with a match against Thailand on Thursday in Rennes.
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India won comfortably but it was Pakistan's Javed Miandad who stole the show with his cheeky on-field antics. The television audience will be enormous.
Trump pins tanker attacks on Iran but says shipping safe
It is notable that tankers carrying Iranian cargoes, or tankers heading to Europe, seem to have been immune from such attacks. However on Thursday, Pompeo listed a number of accusations against Iran, . calling it a "campaign of escalating tension".
"Stranger Things" Rolls Out Season 3 Episode Titles & New Synopsis
If you're keeping count here, this is the show's third mobile game. "We've got a few other projects". "We compete so broadly with all these different providers".
Five-year-old boy dies from Ebola in Uganda - health official
The outbreak declared in August has recorded more than 2,000 Ebola cases in eastern DRC, two-thirds of them fatal. That outbreak, spanning 2013 to 2016, cut a deadly path through West Africa, killing more than 11 ,000 people.
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Man Utd 'make substantial bid' for Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Aaron Wan-Bissaka made the plea, knowing that Crystal Palace are not willing to let him leave in this summer transfer window. He ended up coming back and has had the best spell of his career since he came back.
Andy Ruiz Jr. wants $50 million to rematch Anthony Joshua in UK
Both Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn have confirmed their intention to activate a rematch clause in their contract. Fury added: "Physically Joshua could out-train everyone".
Cyclone Vayu intensifies, thunderstorm and rain expected in three Sindh districts
Schools as well as colleges in 10 districts where the cyclonic storm is expected to hit will be kept closed tomorrow & day after. The Western Railway cancelled 70 trains and short-terminated 28 others due to Cyclone Vayu .
On Friday, the tariffs were called off, after the United States and Mexico announced an agreement on immigration. We had nothing, and the reason we had nothing is because Mexico felt they didn't have to give us anything.
Opining that Harry looked tense, she noted that he seemed to be making an effort to have a "serious look for state occasions". Prince William and Kate Middleton made a few four-legged friends during their visit to Cumbria on Tuesday.


Thread: Homemade CNC - Plexiglas melts whereas Perspex cuts fine?
i'm particularly interested in 3mm white sheet, so I thought I'd won the lottery when I found heaps of white engths of 3mm Plexiglas in one particular skip! (& I mean *loads*).
On the other hand, all the Perspex I've found has cut wonderfully on my machine.
This begs the question.... why?
I's always thought Perspex & Plexiglas were more or less one in the same thing - apparently not. The Plexiglass, has a 'softer' feel to it (flexes more etc)...whereas the Perspex I have seems quite stiff by comparison.
Now it may well be that I was just unlucky & maybe the Plexiglas I found wasn't meant to be milled (I'm sure Plexiglas have more than one product with different composition/structure depending on the end useage).
edit: I found some 'markings' on one piece...it says 05070 ...which apparently translates into White Extruded. A bit of Googling suggests extruded *is* much softer that the other variant cast (which is likely what my perspex is made out of) .....tips seem to be a high feed rate yet slow cutting RPM....I'll give it a bash.
PM45 or PM65 w/ Fine Cuts for thin aluminum?
Radii were fine, now it cuts wrong, HELP!
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You are using brand names really, like lexan.
Lots of folks make polycarbonate, acrylics and cast acrylics, PetG etc.
Poly C, Cast acrylic, petG all machine very well with little fuss.
Standard acrylics like found at Big Box stores is not so nice. It's kinda hard a brittle where the others are a bit softer. They are also less prone to cracking.
I use two flute straight cutters in polycarbonate all the time feeding from 80 IPM to 150 depending on the shape with a PC router.
You might try using some soapy water, heavy on the soap, on the bit to see if that helps out.
I do have some 1/8" white acrylic that I got for a project, but have yet to cut any of it.
I have cut a few small acrylic boxes with the router but it wasn't the cheap acrylics for those stores, it came from a supplier and I think it was cast.
What you've found is a skip load of Plexi XT which is the extruded acrylic you thought it might be.
We use XT quite a lot... what you've found on Google sounds half right. Higher feed rates are best but we keep the RPM's up high- something like 20,000.
The MOST important thing is to use a very sharp single flute cutter. XT is very temperamental about tooling- if your cutters aren't sharp they drag and pull which gives you an awful cut edge.
As has been pointed out; Plexiglas = Perspex = Acrylic = PMMA = Polymethylmethacrylate, which is the correct chemical name for it and explains why trade names are used.
Cast PMMA is pretty much pure polymethylmethacrylate and it machines like a charm using, when possible, tools with zero top rake and a very sharp cutting edge. Brand new HSS cutters are sometimes best. Speeds can be what you would use for brass or even aluminum.
Exruded PMMA has stuff added to it (I think) and it does not machine nicely. It can tend to melt easily and gum up on the cutter. Also it can be very prone to stress cracking and crazing on the machined surfaces.
Thanks (to you all)...I think where I've come unstuck, is that I've previously been solely machining cast acrylic - & my word it machines lovely. I've then come across this 'treasure trove' of Plexiglass & naively used the same feed rates & RPM (my spindle only goes up to 8,000RPM) ....almost instantly this Plexiglass XT (05070 variant) melts & clogs my cutter (particularly bad when my CNC to drills holes 3-5mm dia .....the drill bits clog more or less instantly)....this little bit of research/questioning suggests I really need to crank my feed rate up.
For example for the cast I've previously been machining I only use a feed rate of 40-50mm per minute (on account my homemade CNC hasn't that much grunt)...since this extruded acrylic appears much softer, I'm going to double/triple this with this pesky extruded & see if the acrylic still melts on the tool.
I think I have a new single flute cutter somewhere - I'll give that a go too.
Last edited by HankMcSpank; 09-05-2009 at 04:47 PM.
ok, just popped some more plexiglass onto my machine...this time Black - it milled perfectly. It transpires that this black Plexiglass is 'Plexiglass GS' ..which i've googled & surprise, surprise it's 'cast' acrylic too.
I've not had time to revisit the original Extruded Plexiglass XT, but I'm now beginning to think that cast acrylic is the only one I'm likely to have success with on my particular machine!
I agree with Signmaker, make sure you are using a sharp tool. Not something you have been using on wood. We machine all the brands of acrylic mentioned all day, every day with no problems. You want to run as high a rpm as possible, conventional direction and blast air at the point of cutting. Here are some manufacturers manuals.
Thanks for posting skottc - that information has been a great help!


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John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford (1389–1422), also 7th Lord of Skipton
John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (1435–1461), also 9th Lord of Skipton, Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses
John David Clifford, Jr. (1887–1956), United States District Judge for the District of Maine
John H. Clifford (1809–1876), Governor of Massachusetts
John Clifford (minister) (1836–1923), British nonconformist minister and politician
J. R. Clifford or John Robert Clifford (1848–1933), West Virginian African-American attorney
John R. Clifford, USDA Chief Veterinarian
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Home Books Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e
Chapter 37: Obesity as a Clinical and Social Problem
Ann Smith Barnes; Marisa Rogers; Cam-Tu Tran
Barnes A, Rogers M, Tran C. Barnes A, & Rogers M, & Tran C Barnes, Ann Smith, et al.Obesity as a Clinical and Social Problem. In: King TE, Wheeler MB. King T.E., & Wheeler M.B.(Eds.),Eds. Talmadge E. King, and Margaret B. Wheeler.eds. Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e. McGraw Hill; 2016. Accessed January 26, 2023. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1768&sectionid=119151960
Barnes A, Rogers M, Tran C. Barnes A, & Rogers M, & Tran C Barnes, Ann Smith, et al. (2016). Obesity as a clinical and social problem. King TE, Wheeler MB. King T.E., & Wheeler M.B.(Eds.),Eds. Talmadge E. King, and Margaret B. Wheeler. Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e. McGraw Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1768&sectionid=119151960
Barnes A, Rogers M, Tran C. Barnes A, & Rogers M, & Tran C Barnes, Ann Smith, et al. "Obesity as a Clinical and Social Problem." Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e King TE, Wheeler MB. King T.E., & Wheeler M.B.(Eds.),Eds. Talmadge E. King, and Margaret B. Wheeler. McGraw Hill, 2016, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1768&sectionid=119151960.
DEFINITIONS OF OBESITY
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OBESITY
LOSING WEIGHT IS HARD TO DO
HEALTH-CARE PROVIDER CHALLENGES
TIPPING THE SCALE IN FAVOR OF HEALTH
BARIATRIC SURGERY FOR WEIGHT LOSS
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO WEIGHT CONTROL
PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLICY APPROACHES TO WEIGHT CONTROL
Define obesity.
Describe the populations most affected by obesity.
Describe the health consequences of obesity.
Discuss the difficulties with losing weight, including patient and health-care provider challenges.
Suggest ways for health-care providers to discuss weight loss with patients.
Describe strategies for weight loss.
Esmeralda, a 15-year-old girl, requests a written excuse to skip school physical education classes. Her body mass index (BMI) of 32 reveals that she is in the highest weight category for girls her age. She often skips breakfast and eats most meals in front of the television. Her family members are also obese and have type II diabetes.
Worldwide young and old are being affected by obesity and its complications. Indeed, the obesity "epidemic" may be one of the most significant challenges to global, as well as national health. Paradoxically, poor families are particularly affected because of coexisting undernutrition, lack of resources to eat healthily, and inadequate venues for exercise.
Tackling the obesity epidemic will be not an easy feat because its causes are complex–bridging societal issues (such as governmental subsidies of high caloric food), and personal ones (how active people are). Although health-care providers need to be engaged in the wider public health and community efforts addressing obesity, helping patients as they strive to lose weight or suffer from its consequences remains equally important. This chapter discusses both the challenges and strategies of addressing obesity.
The most widely used classification system for obesity–an abnormal accumulation of body fat–in adults is the body mass index (BMI). The BMI estimates the amount of body fat through a calculation that adjusts weight for height (see "Resources" for online BMI calculator). A normal adult BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9. BMIs between 25 and 29.9 indicate overweight, a BMI greater than 30 indicates obesity, and a BMI greater than 40 indicates extreme obesity. Although health implications of BMI cutoffs vary across ethnic groups,1 it is accepted that increasing BMI is associated with an increased risk of death from cancers and cardiovascular disease. Obesity was most strongly associated with an increased risk of death among never smokers who had no history of disease.2,3
BMI for children, unlike adults, is both age and gender specific because children's bodies change dramatically as they grow, and these changes differ between boys and girls. Terminology for classifying BMI in children has changed and now the language is more consistent with the adult classification (Box 37-1).4 Because in older adolescents a BMI of 95th percentile is higher than the adult cut point of 30 kg/m2, obesity in this population is defined as BMI > 95 percentile or BMI > 30 kg/m2, whichever is lower.4
Box 37-1. Classification System for Obesity
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Autonomous Shipping Nearly Here, Report Says
By Jack Burke29 June 2016
Technology—particularly sensor technology—already exists to make autonomous shipping in the maritime industry a reality by the end of the decade, according to a new whitepaper.
The Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) published the whitepaper to coincide with its presentations at the Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2016 in Amsterdam. The whitepaper outlines the project's vision of how remote and autonomous shipping will become a reality.
"This is happening. It's not if, it's when," said Oskar Levander, Rolls-Royce, vice president of Innovation – Marine. "The technologies needed to make remote and autonomous ships a reality exist. The AAWA project is testing sensor arrays in a range of operating and climatic conditions in Finland and has created a simulated autonomous ship control system which allows the behavior of the complete communication system to be explored. We will see a remote controlled ship in commercial use by the end of the decade."
According to the whitepaper, unmanned ships will "open up exciting possibilities" on how ships are designed and function.
"When there are no people on board, many constraints on the ship layou
Developing autonomous shipping technology would open up design options for ships, according to a new whitepaper.
t are removed," the whitepaper said. "One of the most obvious is the removal of the accommodation and with that the entire deckhouse. This will save cost, weight and space, as well as enabling the ship to carry more cargo."
Future vessels will still need human input form land, making connectivity between the ship and shore crucial, according to the whitepaper.
"Such communication will needed to be bidirectional, accurate, scalable and supported by multiple systems, creating redudancy and minimizing risk," the whitepaper said.
The AAWA whitepaper explores the research carried out to date on the business case for autonomous applications, the safety and security implications of designing and operating remotely operated ships, the legal and regulatory dimensions and the existence and readiness of a supplier network to deliver commercially applicable products in the short to medium term.
The whitepaper draws on a wide range of expertise from academic researchers from some of Finland's leading universities: Tampere University of Technology; VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd; Åbo Akademi University; Aalto University; and the University of Turku. Industry input has been provided by leading members of the maritime cluster including Rolls-Royce, Brighthouse NAPA, Deltamarin, DNV GL and Inmarsat.
The project also has the support of shipowners and operators. The tests of sensor arrays are being carried out aboard Finferries' 65-m double ended ferry, the Stella, which operates between Korpo and Houtskär. ESL Shipping Ltd is helping explore the implications of remote and autonomous ships for the short sea cargo sector.
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An intimate and timely portrait of Yemen, told through tour leader Kais; a story of love, loss and hope on the unknown road to revolution.
Written & Directed by Sean McAllister
"One of the most immediate and accessible descriptions of the Arab Spring to emerge" – The Hollywood Reporter
"What he captures is extraordinary with access conventional media flinch from" – The Huffington Post
"The Reluctant Revolutionary is unlike anything you'll see anywhere" – Michael Moore
The Reluctant Revolutionary is an intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, told through the eyes of Kais, an intelligent if ambivalent commentator on the changing times in Yemen, offering poignant moments of reflection, loss, anger and hope on the unknown road to revolution and change.
Kais is a 35-year-old tour guide leader from Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, struggling to make ends meet and working in his father's travel agency.  He is philosophical, articulate and reflective but as the story begins, he is cynical about the undercurrents of dissent in the country and supportive of the President.  When one of his tours has to be cut short due to the instability and increased danger for tourists, he returns to Sana'a to find two permanent camps in the city centre: one for the President and one against. Kais is adamant that protests won't solve anything, that the president is doing his best and that violence will never be used to quash the protesters. At first, he refuses to enter the anti-president camp, but is convinced by the filmmaker to have a look one night. Over a number of visits we see Kais change, 'I never imagined seeing rival tribes coming and sitting here in peace, without their Kalashnikovs' he declares.
We understand the camp through Kais's eyes. As the protest camp grows from 'Change Square' to take over the surrounding streets and all the way towards the presidential palace, we also see that like Kais, numerous people are being converted to the movement. Kais embraces the revolution as each Friday gets bigger, and bloodier. Through his eyes, we see the events unfolding in the peace camps – the reactions to killings, defections, the President's failure to sign a peace deal – and understand what the revolution means to ordinary Yemenis. Sean McAllister shows us a revolution in the making through the eyes of ordinary Yemeni citizens. He paints a subtle picture that shows the very root of people's discontent and demands from the government.
Indeed, at home, Kais must care for his pregnant wife, but times are tight: "there is no work or money to be made in Yemen during the revolution days." Kais is visibly happy for the revolution but scared for his family, "this isn't a great time to be bringing another child into the world" he says.
Meanwhile, all foreign journalists are tracked down and sent out of the country: Sean is the only remaining foreigner in his hotel. The film addresses questions of the role of the documentary filmmaker – whether to stay or leave? What to film or not? Which side to take?
The country is expecting a massacre – as the call to prayer sounds, we see makeshift hospitals in the background with hundreds of empty beds and drips lined up waiting to receive new casualties from the street. As the events now known as the Friday of Dignity strike, 52 are killed and Sean is one of a handful of foreigners there to witness. Kais, like everybody, worries about the future of Yemen: "It won't be a blood bath, it will be a blood swimming pool"
Official Selection: Panorama Dokumente, Berlinale Germany 2012
Official Selection: Hot Docs, Canada 2012
Winner Special Mention: Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2012
Nominated Special Jury Award: Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2012
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