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Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A multi-center experience
Sanghamitra Mohanty, Chintan Trivedi, Pamela Horton, Domenico G.Della Rocca, Carola Gianni, Bryan Macdonald, Angel Mayedo, Javier Sanchez, G. Joseph Gallinghouse, Amin Al-Ahmad, Rodney P. Horton, J. David Burkhardt, Antonio Dello Russo, Michela Casella, Claudio Tondo, Sakis Themistoclakis, Giovanni Forleo, Luigi Di Biase, Andrea Natale
BACKGROUND: We evaluated long-term outcome of isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava, including time to recurrence and prevalent triggering foci at repeat ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with or without cardiovascular comorbidities. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 1633 consecutive patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation that were arrhythmia-free for 2 years following the index ablation were classified into: group 1 (without comorbidities); n=692 and group 2 (with comorbidi-ties); n=941. We excluded patients with documented ablation of areas other than pulmonary veins, the left atrial posterior wall, and the superior vena cava at the index procedure. At 10 years after an average of 1.2 procedures, 215 (31%) and 480 (51%) patients had recurrence with median time to recurrence being 7.4 (interquartile interval [IQI] 4.3–8.5) and 5.6 (IQI 3.8–8.3) years in group 1 and 2, respectively. A total of 201 (93.5%) and 456 (95%) patients from group 1 and 2 underwent redo ablation; 147/201 and 414/456 received left atrial appendage and coronary sinus isolation and 54/201 and 42/456 had left atrial lines and flutter ablation. At 2 years after the redo, 134 (91.1%) and 391 (94.4%) patients from group 1 and 2 receiving left atrial appendage/coronary sinus isolation remained arrhythmia-free whereas sinus rhythm was maintained in 4 (7.4%) and 3 (7.1%) patients in respective groups undergoing empirical lines and flutter ablation (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Very late recurrence of atrial fibrillation after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, regardless of the comorbid-ity profile, was majorly driven by non-pulmonary vein triggers and ablation of these foci resulted in high success rate. However, presence of comorbidities was associated with significantly earlier recurrence.
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Late recurrence
Left atrial appendage
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Pulmonary vein isolation
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Superior Vena Cava Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Pulmonary Veins Medicine & Life Sciences 94%
Atrial Fibrillation Medicine & Life Sciences 73%
Cardiac Arrhythmias Medicine & Life Sciences 69%
Atrial Appendage Medicine & Life Sciences 29%
Coronary Sinus Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Comorbidity Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Mohanty, S., Trivedi, C., Horton, P., Rocca, D. G. D., Gianni, C., Macdonald, B., Mayedo, A., Sanchez, J., Gallinghouse, G. J., Al-Ahmad, A., Horton, R. P., Burkhardt, J. D., Russo, A. D., Casella, M., Tondo, C., Themistoclakis, S., Forleo, G., Di Biase, L., & Natale, A. (2021). Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A multi-center experience. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(11), [e020563]. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.020563
Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation : A multi-center experience. / Mohanty, Sanghamitra; Trivedi, Chintan; Horton, Pamela et al.
In: Journal of the American Heart Association, Vol. 10, No. 11, e020563, 2021.
Mohanty, S, Trivedi, C, Horton, P, Rocca, DGD, Gianni, C, Macdonald, B, Mayedo, A, Sanchez, J, Gallinghouse, GJ, Al-Ahmad, A, Horton, RP, Burkhardt, JD, Russo, AD, Casella, M, Tondo, C, Themistoclakis, S, Forleo, G, Di Biase, L & Natale, A 2021, 'Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A multi-center experience', Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 10, no. 11, e020563. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.020563
Mohanty S, Trivedi C, Horton P, Rocca DGD, Gianni C, Macdonald B et al. Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A multi-center experience. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021;10(11):e020563. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020563
Mohanty, Sanghamitra ; Trivedi, Chintan ; Horton, Pamela et al. / Natural history of arrhythmia after successful isolation of pulmonary veins, left atrial posterior wall, and superior vena cava in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation : A multi-center experience. In: Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021 ; Vol. 10, No. 11.
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Bas Peters (14 mei 1978) is een Nederlandse mountainbiker uit Heel. In 2004 deed hij namens Nederland mee aan de Olympische Spelen in Athene.

Erelijst
2011
 1e  in het Nederlands kampioenschap Mountainbike Marathon (Elite)

2010
 1e Stappenbelt Rabobank MTB Trophy 2010 (Elite)

2008
 1e in het Nederlands kampioenschap Mountainbike Marathon (Elite)
 3e in het Nederlands kampioenschap Mountainbike XC (Elite)
 3e Benelux Kampioenschap

2007
 Benelux kampioen (Elite)
 3e in het Nederlands kampioenschap Mountainbike XC (Elite)

2006
 1e  in het Nederlands kampioenschap Mountainbike XC (Elite)
 1e Goossens Merida MTB Trophy
 1e Grand Prix d'Europe, Malmedy

2005
31e in WB-eindklassement

2004
 13e bij de Olympische Spelen, Athene (Mountainbike)

Team
Team Combee-Merida, www.teamcombee.nl Onder leiding van oud-motocrosser Leo Combee.

Externe link

Nederlands mountainbiker
Nederlands olympisch deelnemer

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Q: NHibernate + ASP.Net MVC - how to order data in strongly typed manned according to user selected field I'm presenting data for users in a grid (ExtJS) with remote sorting and paging. Let's say I have a grid with some Orders. Order entity looks like Order{OrderNumber, Customer, Date, Address{Street, City, PostCode}}. Customer is mapped by NH as relation, Address is mapped as component. Data presented in the grid are flattened to columns named like this: OrderNumber, Customer.Number, Customer.Name, Date, Address.Street, Address.City, Address.PostCode.
User selects a column which he'd like to sort by and the grid sends the field name to server. Now on server side I need to restore backwards what entity property belongs to grid field name and decide if it's just component or if it's relation and build Criteria with CreateAlias + AddOrder etc. This logic is full of code like:
if (gridField=="Customer.Name"){
  cri = cri.createAlias("Customer", "customerAlias");
  cri.AddOrder(Order.Asc("customerAlias.Name"));
}

This is much simplified, but it neccesarily looks like this at the moment. I'm looking for some generic smarter solution. Any thoughts? The problem I'm facing now is that I can have a convention for transforming entity properties (including nested components and relations), but than I need to have a method how to determine if the field is mapped like component or relation. This would be quite heavy....

A: It would be quite heavy. I don't see a simple solution, but if you are planning on re-using this a lot, or need something very robust, you could build a system based on reflection.
Another possibility would be to use some T4 templates, but that would only help the 'string' issue, not the association issue.

A: How about:
cri = cri.CreateAlias( "Customer", "CustomerAlias" );
string sortProperty = gridField.Replace("Customer.", "CustomerAlias.");
cri.AddOrder( Order.Asc(sortProperty) );

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About 1911 Levi J. Clements, purchased the big sawmill at Ray City, GA from W.F. Luckie and it became the Clements Lumber Company. The Clements Family had some experience in the sawmill business. The Clements brothers, Lucius J. Clements, J.I. Clements, and J.S. Clements, operated the mill; Lucius served as the General Manager.
World War I brought an economic boom for the Clements' sawmill operations.
During World War I, Southern yellow pine was the most abundant of all ship materials and was extensively used in building wood ships along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
Lucius J. Clements continued to serve as General Manager at the Clements sawmill, although on September 19,1918, at the age of 37, he diligently registered for the draft for World War I along with other Ray City men. His cousin, Hod P. Clements had registered a year earlier.
"When World War I broke out, the Clements' boys, who are my cousins, sold lumber to the government to build ships, and made about half a million dollars," he said.
According to Clements, the price of lumber rose from $8 a thousand feet to $120 a thousand feet in a year.
Nashville Herald. Feb 6, 1923.. Clements Lbr Company sold out at Ray City. Nashvillle Herald, Nashville, GA. pg 1.
World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Card. Lucius J. Clements. Registration Location: Berrien County, Georgia; Roll: 1556961; Draft Board: 0. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920. T625, 2,076 rolls. Census location: Rays Mill, Berrien, Georgia; Roll: T625_235; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 22; Image: 288.
Davis, C. G., Clarke, T. W., Drown, F. S., & United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. (1918). The building of a wooden ship. Philadelphia, Pa: Industrial Service Section, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp..
Ray City Sawmill. It has the name Ray City Lumber Co. stamped into the coins, in denominiations of 5 cents, 10 cents, and 50 cent I dont believe these tokens were used at the Luckie Sawmill or the Clements Lumber Mill either. Did Clements sell out to the owners of the Ray City Lumber Co?
No, the Clements sold out to Jackson Bros. in 1923.
The Jackson Brothers, owners of the Jackson Lumber Company purchased the entire mill operation from Clements Lumber Company for $75,000 in cash in what was described as "one of the biggest business deals pulled of in this section in some time." The Jackson Brothers were no strangers to big business deals, and were among the wealthiest businessmen in the south. Among their other Georgia investments were Tallapoosa Mills in Tallapoosa, GA and they were major stockholders in Couch Cotton Mill of Atlanta.
Clements Lumber Company and Jackson Bros. Lumber Co. both had tokens with their name embossed. So did Nix Lumber Co. I don't know if Luckie Lumber had tokens.
J think there were other smaller sawmills, but do not have documentatoin.
Can you send photos of these tokens?
I'm the former Mayor of Ray City, and interestingly enough I actually found one of those Clements Lumber Company "5 cent" tokens a couple of days ago right in front of the old Clements Store in Ray City, where they are replacing the sidewalks. I just happen to be pulling out of the driveway and looked down and saw something that looked like a coin. I got out and sure enough it was a 5 cent token from Clement Lumber Company. This is a great find and a big part of Ray City's history.
My grandfather was Joe S. Clements, I remember my father used to have some coins. Played with them when I was young.


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/By Allan Caprola
/guerilla marketing, marketing, music, soundcloud, Uncategorized
SoundCloud: The New Version of Selling CD's out of the Trunk
Guerilla marketing has evolved with technology, but the premise has remained the same- to market with little to no budget while still reaching and building a loyal audience. Over the years, the practice has been particularly successful in the hip-hop community. Underground artists used to lock-down areas audiences were located and market their merchandise.
Thanks to the growing popularity of the internet, a wide variety of social media channels and other "free" services, such as Soundcloud, musicians are spreading their material further and faster than ever before. The ability to reach an international audience with straight to consumer tactics, meeting consumers where they already are, online. A tight piece of creative work on Soundcloud can drive a fan to a website, iTunes, Spotify and now Tidal.
THE POPULARITY OF MUSIC PLATFORMS
While SoundCloud is only one of many music hosting platforms, it's popularity is nothing to ignore. The company boasts 250 million monthly active users (compared to Pandora's 70 million) and an average 12 hours of content posted by users every minute. Even more impressive and enticing to artists is that 90 percent of uploaded tracks get a listen, and more than half of them get played in the first hour (compared to 80 percent of Spotify's available tracks that get played). The reach, and more importantly the high consumption rates, are huge draws for artists and have even bigger implications for the future of the platform.
SoundCloud has recently struck a deal with Warner and also launched OnSoundCloud to help users monetize their material directly on the site. While partnerships with larger corporations could spell the end of independent artists freely rising to fame via SoundCloud, hosting platforms are only one tactic artists are using to rise above the noise and gain recognition.
In 2013 after leaving Epic Records, rapper Nipsey Hussle needed a new way to promote his album, so he attempted a rather unorthodox tactic. The artist put his new album online for for free download, but also sells physical copies- capping the total at 1,000- for $100 each. The entire stock sold out and more importantly, gained the attention of rap legend and businessman Jay-Z, who purchased 100 copies of the album. Nipsey is now repeating a similar tactic but selling his new album for $1,000. He has already sold 60 new albums.
Nipsey isn't the only emerging artist to test unconventional methods when dropping albums. In 2013, rapper Curren$y released mixtape exclusively on Bittorrent and is now attempting an even more radical tactic- releasing his new new tracks exclusively on a USB drive. By releasing an album in Bittorrent, a massive file-sharing program, Curren$y is inevitably opening himself up faster pirating of his new music, but also cutting out other factors that would cut into profits, such as retailer costs, packaging, and shipping, while also allowing for instantaneous consumption of his product.
BIG STARS TAKE NOTICE
Underground or emerging artists aren't the only ones who are taking advantage of tech and social channels. In late 2013, rap and pop star Beyonce Knowles launched her 5th and self-titled album in secret via itunes, each song accompanied with a video. She even made the announcement via Instagram, where she had a significantly smaller audience than her Twitter account (at the time).
While the idea of finding and captivating a large audience has always been the goal, some artists are using their fame and fan base simply to raise the money to keep creating music. Rap group De La Soul have recently Kickstarter for New Album 'And the Anonymous Nobody', surpassing their original goal of $100,000 in less than 24 hours.
Technology is changing the way artists- who in this case, are marketers- connect with potential customers. This concept is fundamental and holds true whether you are an underground up-and-coming rap star or the CMO of a Fortune 500 company. Artists are proving that the traditional route to fame is no longer needed. Many are using free tools, such as SoundCloud or Twitter, to reach large groups of people for little or no monetary investment on their end. I believe that in the very near future, we will witness the money that 5 years ago was used to press underground artists' CD's being allocated into a social marketing team, hosting a Kickstarter, purchasing Facebook ads, or filming music videos that premiere directly on Vimeo and YouTube. The concept of direct to consumer and crowdsourcing to finance albums shows that both record companies and retailers alike must adapt their business models in order to survive the future of the music industry.
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Selling a house is a tedious process. Most people like it to finish as soon as possible. Everyone understands the need to keep the house clean and clutter free while it's on sale. But a "staged" house speaks a different language. It talks to the potential buyers. It helps them visualize living in there.
While not a new concept, staging a house has gained lot of popularity, since more and more realtors and sellers have started realizing the benefits it provides. How you live is not the way how you sell. Living in the house is very personal, and for right reasons. But while selling, it needs to appeal to everyone. Buyers should be able to strike cord emotionally with the house. A professionally staged home does just that.
Ambiance Design team is awesome. I've been using them for almost 4 years to stage my listings and they know how to put the home in its best light. They use a lot of bright colors that make the home pop, which is crucial for the online photos when marketing the property. They are not shy on the amount of accessories they use, which are lovely, and their furniture is contemporary, clean, and shows very well. I have referred Ambiance to countless agents, as well as to my clients who need an interior designer. In fact, I'm using them for my own home!
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AMD R9 260X, 270X, 280X Launch; NVIDIA Fills in GeForce 700 Series Ranks
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has appeared to get the jump on archrival NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) — for the moment at least. With the soft launch of Volcanic Islands, AMD has the world's first DirectX11.2 card, and a whole bag of new tricks — or did it?
I. AMD R9 280X — GeForce GTX 770-Like Performance For $100 Less
Some questioned AMD's September soft launch which came with no concrete details about launch date. But this week the mystery ends, as gamers will get their first taste of Volcanic Islands; and it's a sweet taste of gaming paradise.
It seemed a bit idealistic from the start to believe that all the R7 and R9 cards previewed in September would be available at the exact same time. Matt Skinner, General Manager of AMD's graphics business unit had promised, "a top to bottom product line for every gamer", remarking, "We believe we have winners at ever price."
The R7 and R9 family is looking to be more of a traditional launch than some had hoped.
But in the end AMD delivered — other than the absent flagship R9 290X, all the cards — the Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X, R7 250, and R7 240 are launching this week.
Priced at $299 USD and up, the R9 280X's chief competition price-wise — for now — is the NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760, a second-generation Kepler GPU that NVIDIA finally pushed out this week. The AMD GPU will be available on Friday, Oct. 11; somewhat disappointingly it doesn't come with any games, where as the Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs now come with 1-3 free games, plus a fresh round of price cuts.
But in terms of performance it's hard to fault the R9 280X. PCWorld tested a card from Micro-Star International (MSI) Comp. Ltd. (TPE:2377), while our good friends at AnandTech took cards from XFX (a division of Pine Technology Holdings Ltd. (HKG:1079)) and ASUSTek Computer, Inc. (TPE:2357) out for a spin.
Volcanic Islands still uses the same Graphics Core Next architecture.
[Image Source: AMD via AnandTech]
AnandTech's benchmarks show one of the cards (namely the overclocked ASUS model) beating out the Radeon HD 7970 Gigahertz Edition (GE), AMD's previous generation flagship. Compared to NVIDIA, the new card comes within a hair of the performance of the also-new $400 USD GeForce GTX 770, and blows away the the $50 USD cheaper GeForce 760 by 15-20 percent.
The ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II Top smoked the competition. [Image Source: AnandTech]
More benchmarks are available below, and they all pretty much tell the same story:
"AMD Radeon R7-260X R9-270X and R9-280X review – Introduction" — Guru3D
"AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X and R7 260X Review" — PC Perspective
"AMD's Radeon R9 280X and 270X graphics cards" — TechReport
"AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X, And R7 260X: Old GPUs, New Names" — Tom's Hardware
These other benchmarks show the R9 270X ($200 USD) to generally be neck-and-neck with the GeForce GTX 760 ($250 USD), while the R7 260X ($140 USD) is comparable to the Radeon HD 7850 ($125 USD, after discount) or the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti ($160 USD), but beat by the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost ($110 USD, after discount).
Another piece of good news is that EyeFinity has been improved with the R9 chips to add support for a third HDMI/DVI monitored, and up to 3 DisplayPort monitors, allowing gamers to potential drive six monitors simultaneously.
II. AMD Seizes Holiday Lead, But Early 2014 May Belong to NVIDIA
Overall, AMD has a commanding lead on the high-end with the R9 cards beating NVIDIA cards priced $50 USD or more higher. On the lower end (the R7 260X) the picture is muddled by budget offerings from both NVIDIA and AMD itself. That said, this launch is a significant win for AMD as it is is about as clear a win as you're going to see on the high end.
However, in addition to the gripes about pricing on the low end there are also a few other caveats to consider, even with the dominant higher end models like the R9 280X.
NVIDIA is likely to cut the prices of the GeForce GTX 760/770. While these cards have just come out, the market reality is that NVIDIA must cut, and cut it shall — the question is when. Also on the NVIDIA front, we must remember that NVIDIA is prepping the successor to Kepler, Maxwell for launch. The fact that the GeForce 700 Series is just now filling out with the launch of the GeForce GTX 760/770 suggests we may have to wait a while longer for that major launch. But if Maxwell doesn't take too long to get here, the R7 and R9 cards should eventually face a far fiercer foe.
NVIDIA will look to regain the lead in early 2014 with Maxwell. [Image Source: VideoCardz]
And while the R9 280X trumps the GeForce 700 Series in load temperatures (running cooler) and noise (running quieter), it does consume a lot of power under load — more than the GeForce GTX 770 even.
Lastly, while the R9 (and R7) come with a lot of new tricks, most of those tricks boil down to optimizations to the previous generation in terms of clock speed and computer units; or firmware upgrades. Some of the biggest gains — such as those realizable with AMD's low-level firmware alternative to DirectX — Mantle — will only be available if developers choose to optimize their games for AMD cards. Given its current lead and strong historical presence, a number of AAA game developers should do precisely that in time, but it's not something you can always count on performance-wise.
At its core the R7 and R9 GPUs are still based on AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture and while we have yet to see some of the new series' most appealing cards (the more affordable models, and the flagship R9 290X), it's unlikely that the missing members of the family will reinvent the wheel too much.
Maxwell, on the other hand, is a true architecture bump, albeit coming at an inopportune time as fabs prepare to transition from 28 nm to 20 nm processes. Maxwell 28 nm chips are rumored to be on pace for a Feb. or March 2014 launch. That's a long way off, but given that AMD isn't expected to release 20 nm Graphics Core Next 2.0 cards until October 2014, it's highly probable we'll see NVIDIA regain the lead in early 2014.
AMD's own architecture bump — Graphics Core Next 2.0 — is expected to accompany a 20 nm die shrink in Q4 2014.
In other words AMD's timing is much better — seizing a command position as we approach the holiday season of spending — but NVIDIA is still very much alive.
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Nez Perce Tribe celebrates winning over $5 million to ecologically restore sockeye salmon habitat at site of destructive dam
On November 16, 2022, Oregon's U.S. Senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, announced that a total of $5,041,495 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will be awarded to the Nez Perce Tribe—in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) and other partners—to restore sockeye salmon habitat connectivity at the Wallowa Lake Dam.
"This $5 million federal investment to restore sockeye salmon in Oregon's northeastern corner marks a significant win for fish and the tribes working hard to build back this natural connection," Wyden said.
"This win for the Wallowa Lake Dam also will ripple out into gains for recreation, clean water and river flows that will help ranchers and farmers to weather droughts," he continued.
NFWF announced nearly $91 million in grants through the new America the Beautiful Challenge (ATBC), funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and other federal conservation programs and private sources.
This $5,041,495 grant will enable a collaboration among two federally recognized Tribes, an irrigation district, and the State of Oregon to complete rehabilitation of the Wallowa Lake Dam to balance rural community resilience and economic benefit with improved aquatic habitat connectivity for at-risk fish through engineering and construction at the high-hazard dam to connect hundreds of miles of sockeye salmon spawning habitat.
"Sockeye salmon are important not just to the culture of the CTUIR and Nez Perce Tribe but to the entire Pacific Northwest," said Senator Merkley, who chairs the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which funded the program.
"So we all owe a debt to these tribes, who are helping restore the 100 year old Wallowa Lake Dam to restore sockeye salmon populations in Northeastern Oregon. This federal funding will help increase river flows, which will benefit not just the fish populations, but nearby communities as well through increased recreation opportunities, the protection of drinking water sources, and support for ranchers and growers during times of droughts," he added.
Merkley and Wyden sent a letter to NFWF's Chairman, J. Michael Cline, spotlighting their support for the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation and Wallowa River Restoration Project.
Senator Merkley, as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Wyden were able to secure $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2022 spending bill for the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation project to support this important initiative.
Photo of sockeye salmon via Pixabay.
See Nez Perce Tribe website.


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Q: Problems during Flutter Android Wrappers update I've been working in a system using flutter and the google tool ar core, from a udemy course which was using a previous version of the Android wrappers, after downloading the code from the course and trying to run it, the terminal gave me that warning:

After trying to fix it by updating it using the github guide: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Upgrading-pre-1.12-Android-projects
I had some problems 'cause I don't have the MainActivity.java, only MainActivity.kl, so I did it on the kotlin file instead.
But in the xml files the AndroidStudio gave me some errors:
At ManifestAndroid.xml

*

*Attribute android:glEsVersion is not allowed here
on line <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00030000" android:required="true" /> inside the <manifest> tag

*Unresolved class '{applicationName}'
on line <application
android:name="${applicationName}"
>
And at the styles.xml

*

*Cannot resolve symbol 'android:windowBackground' on the line <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/[your_launch_drawable_here]</item> and in the second call android:windowBackground too

when I try to run it the terminal gives me that error:

how can I fix it and update the Android Wrappers?


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CPT code for novel AMD therapy effective July 1
NeoVista Inc. has announced that the American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel has released a new Category III code for the company's novel epiretinal beta radiation therapy to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Fremont, CA-NeoVista Inc. has announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel has released a new Category III code for the company's novel epiretinal beta radiation therapy to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The new CPT code, 0190T, will become effective July 1 and will be used with the code for performing a basic posterior vitrectomy, 67036.
The assignment of a Category III code is a step toward the issuance of a Category I code, which is used by physicians to bill for their services and is tied to payment rates under many insurers' fees-for-service programs. During the Category III phase, the AMA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services collect data and assess new services and procedures. The data collected can be used in regulatory filings for a Category I code and for reimbursement following commercialization.
"We at NeoVista believe that our unique radiation therapy will eventually be shown to offer a less time-consuming and less-costly alternative for physicians who treat patients with wet AMD," said John Hendrick, president and chief executive officer of NeoVista.


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Q: Conceptual question about casting objects using wildcard generics I am trying to understand why the compiler treats objects (using wildcard generics) being inline declared differently then objects being first set to an variable.
See the following example:
public class SillyTest{

    interface A<T extends B> {}
    interface B {}

    @Test
    public void m() {

        Class<?> b1 = A.class.getClass();
        Class<? extends B> bb1 = (Class<? extends B>) b1; // works fine

        Class<? extends B> bb2 = (Class<? extends B>) A.class.getClass(); // doesn't compile
        Class<? extends B> bb3 = (Class<? extends B>)(A.class.getClass()); // also doesn't compile
    }
}

Note: Depending on your compiler configuration you may have to add an @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") Annotation.
Why does the compiler handles these two cases different? I would expect that due to compiler inlining these calls should be equivalent anyway. Apart from the fact that this is an uncheckted cast (which may or may not work) getClass() returns an Class<?>, so I do not see a reason why this should be handled differently.

A: Since Class<A> doesn't extend B, your two last statements are obviously false, and that can be determined at compile time. b1 on the other hand, is of type Class<?>, so it is not known at compile time whether ? does extends B or not. There needs to be a runtime check.


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Gianni Di Giovanni (born July 3, 1963, in Potenza, Italy) is an Italian journalist. Since October 2020, has served as chairman of the board of directors of Eni China BV and as executive vice president of Eni's Beijing branch office.

Education and career
Di Giovanni completed a degree in political science in 1986 at the Sapienza University of Rome. He then worked for the IRI for six years, before completing graduate studies in journalism at the Catholic University of Milan.

In 1994, he was appointed head of public relations at Stet International and head of Institutional Affairs at SMH and Stet International Netherlands, roles in which he served until 1998, when he became head of communications for Telecom Italia's TIM.

From November 2000 to December 2006, he served as head of public relations for the Italian mobile carrier Wind.

Di Giovanni was one of the early proponents of new media, as well as the relaunch of traditional media such as radio, spending 15 years working for telecoms across South America, Eastern Europe, India and China during major open market and privatisation processes in these regions.

From January 2006 to July 2013, he was Eni's executive vice president for public communications. During these years he coordinated the work of the company's communications representatives around the world.

In July 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Italian press agency AGI (Agenzia Giornalistica Italiana), a position which he held until his appointment as CEO of the agency in July 2013, when he was also appointed vice president of national press agencies at Fieg (the Italian federation of newspaper publishers).

While serving in the management of AGI, he helped strengthen the agency's internationalisation strategy and spur its growth in digital media. Both areas are now major strengths of AGI.

Since October 2015, Di Giovanni has served as chairman of the Board of Directors of Eni Co Inc.
He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eni USA R&M Co. Inc., a company which produces and distributes lubricants in North America.

Since October 2015, he has served as executive vice chairman of Eni's Washington D.C. branch office.

Since October 2020, he has served as chairman of the board of directors of Eni China BV and as Executive Vice President of Eni's Beijing  branch office: a role through which he works to safeguard and promote Eni's interests in China, interfacing with local public institutions and authorities, assessing markets and advising the company on growth opportunities.

Since November 2017, he has served as board director of the Atlantic Council, an American think tank that promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the Atlantic Community's central role in meeting global challenges.

During 2018, he was awarded the executive master's degree in Climate Change and Energy: Policymaking for the Long Term at  Harvard University, The Kennedy School of Government.

He is the editor-in-chief of the platform ABO - About Oil and print magazine Oil, prestigious energy news publications, as well as the periodical Professione Gestore, a publication through which Eni communicates with managers throughout Italy, providing them with information on business strategy, promotional initiatives and new products.

Di Giovanni has authored two books: Niente di più facile, niente di più difficile - Manuale (pratico) per la comunicazion e, published in 2010 by Fausto Lupetti Editore, and La casa di vetro. Comunicare l'azienda nell'era digitale, published in 2013 by Rizzoli Etas.

He is a member of the faculty at the master programme in Media Relations and Communications at the Graduate School of Media Communication and Performing Arts at the Catholic University of Milan, as well as at the master programme in Digital Journalism at the Lateranense Postgraduate Centre – CLAS at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

Publications
Niente di più facile, niente di più difficile – Manuale (pratico) per la comunicazione

In 2010, Gianni Di Giovanni and Stefano Lucchini published Niente di più facile, niente di più difficile – Manuale (pratico) per la comunicazione through publisher Fausto Lupetti Editore. The book offers a practical guide to traditional and new media communication tools.

La casa di vetro. Comunicare l'azienda nell'era digitale

In 2013, the publishing house Rizzoli Etas published Di Giovanni and Lucchini's La casa di vetro. Comunicare l'azienda nell'era digitale. The book deals with how business communication has changed with the advent of the Internet and social media.

References

External links
 Eni
 AGI

1963 births
Living people
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
People from Potenza


Kushboo and Satinder have watched their youngest child turn to bones right before their eyes. Virat is almost 2-years-old and weighs only 7 kgs. Everything he has eaten since November has been through feeding tubes. Virat can't even drink a sip of water on his own. As unrecognizable as he's become, his parents' only hope is that after this long-drawn battle with death, their son makes it out alive.
"I thought he was playing with his toys, I don't know where he got the battery from. I left him alone for one minute to see what my other two children were doing. When I came back, he was still playing, so I didn't know if anything was wrong."
After accidentally swallowing a button battery, little Virat continued to play, oblivious to the grave danger that his life would be in. When he suddenly developed fever and cough the next day, a worried Satinder took him to the doctor. He was rushed to the ICU after an x-ray revealed the toxic battery in his system. Virat's insides were completely burnt and infected.
Two days ago, Virat developed a serious chest infection and was taken to the ICU once again. Virat cries every time he's pulled away from his parents, unable to understand why he has to go days in the ICU without them. Virat has had two surgeries so far and has one more left. He is so close to being completely out of danger, and only further hospital care can save him.
"After his surgery, we took him home. We hoped that his condition would improve, but it only got worse. He lost more weight and was in constant pain. Now he not only needs another surgery but must stay in the hospital for at least one month to fully recover. We've spent lakhs on his treatment already, it's impossible for us to go beyond this."
While Khusbhoo spends her days by Virat's hospital bed, Satinder toils away at the factory that he works in. With each passing day, they're finding it more difficult to afford Virat's medical bills. Despite taking several loans, begging and borrowing from every known person, Satinder and Khushboo can't afford Virat's last leg of treatment.
It's crucial that Virat stays in the hospital for at least a month to completely recover from this tragedy. Virat also needs another surgery to be able to breathe and eat on his own again. His parents have nothing, and no one left to turn to for help anymore. Virat will only survive with continued and close medical care and attention.
Your support will save baby Virat's life.
Virat got admitted in day care for a procedure. Virat is doing fine and is coming regularly for OPD check ups. He has also started swallowing food and gained weight too.
We shall keep you posted. Keep supporting.
Quick update in Virat's health. Virat was admitted in the hospital on for esophageal repair and now has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering slowly.
Thank you once again for the love and support. Please pray for his speedy recovery.
We would like to inform you that Virat was admitted for some bacterial infection, which was treated after hospitalisation and dr. operated him for more esophageal opening. He has been discharged and is recovering well.


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By Lisa Vasta
www.kilima.com/usa.html Kilima.com, an online world of news, film, art, music and literature from nine countries, was the first website to broadcast the audio of documentary films in their entirety using RealAudio. This website, begun in 1996, is a must-see for anyone interested in independent documentary filmmaking. The U.S. page features a ton of links. There… Read more »
Viva la Revolucion DV!
By Esther Robinson
The Celebration (1998), 105 min., color Director: Thomas Vinterberg [www.dogme95.dk] Original Format: Mini DV (PAL) Transferred to: 35mm Synopsis: The story of a family celebration which explores the explosions that occur when family tensions reach critical mass. Camera used: Sony PC 7 (palm-sized mini DV camera; predecessor to the PC10 and PC1). Sound: Mixed to… Read more »
AT THEATERS NEAR YOU: IFC Productions' Slate
By Patricia Thomson
John Sayles' Men with Guns IFC's credit: "A presentation of the Independent Film Channel and the Anarchists Convention." Prior relationship: "We'd shown a lot of John's movies over time," says Sehring. "And I love to tell the story that I first spotted my wife when I was in conversation with John 15 years ago at… Read more »
Off the Beaten Track: the Blair Witch Project
By Adam Pincus
We're kind of a garage band of filmmaking," says Dan Myrick of his collaborators, an Orlando, Florida-based film collective called Haxan Films. Low-fi and revved up with basement tape ingenuity, Haxan cranked it to eleven in their debut film as a group, a thoroughly spooky mock-documentary-cum-horror film called The Blair Witch Project. The film premiered… Read more »
PBS POTLUCK:
By Scott Castle
As the world of independent media evolves, some things remain the same. One is the importance of public television as an outlet for independent work. This article presents a sampling of the acquisition series–those that buy completed work–at both the national and local affiliate level. Even at its highest, the pay scale on public TV… Read more »


What makes our work of Craniosacral Therapy so special and such an adventure is the fact that it is so in the "Now." It seems in the current "now," all of our daily lives are filled with the ill effects of chaos, cruelty, anger and violence in our troubled world. Patients challenge us to try to be present and hold space for those struggling with the physical and emotional effects of our lives. To be sure there is good, beauty, love and happiness in the world, but our patients teach us about the other side. Nobody comes to us complaining of feeling too happy, too content or well loved.
Patients come before us and teach us about our collective understanding of troubles and sources of pain and suffering. We can kill our planet and end life as we know it within our lifetimes by not taking action to reverse climate change. We can see how precious and fundamentally important clean water is by the lessons playing out in Puerto Rico for the past many months. We see daily how painful and intolerable life is that so many young among us have turned to prescriptions and opiates to get numb and free of their painful lives. And we even are brought to question ourselves and our own understanding about truth and facts by the way leaders and corporations in our culture and other cultures of the world have distorted and misrepresented themselves, their motives and basic facts enough to cause all of us to question our values, elected officials and even our neighbors and family members. All these things we now know can make ourselves and others ill, full of worry, suffering and pain and turn us all, at some point, into patients. We all can and likely will be patients sometimes. Patients teach us we all need to get help and treatment and work on ourselves too. It is life.
I have asked myself, "Don, can you always remain impartial, non-judgmental, ego-subordinated and unconditionally present?" No...I cannot. Sometimes I get wrapped up in the "Now" of life. Whether it be on the table or in my own daily life activities with business, family, friends, children, community, working on my little farm or watching the news from the couch. Patients teach us we are human, we are reactive, vulnerable and we have our own morals, values and triggers. Patients bring us a reality check that -- no matter what -- we need to try.
Patients teach us to clear ourselves and work intentionally to stay present and not be triggered by an emotion or story that may come out on the table. Patients remind us we are human. When they have an emotional response that causes them to feel authentic emotion, we learn by holding them and experiencing their response what an authentic emotional response is and what a body reaction looks and feels like. Patients constantly teach us (with lots of practice) how to be neutral and hold space for emotions to express without being reactive or caught up in the charge of them. Being taught to be present for our patients we can learn to be present for ourselves and connect to our own healing potential. As we help our patients by extension, we can carry informed awareness to the rest of our lives and may see a way forward to help each of us and collectively the world. Our patients show us what is possible to heal with CST and well-intentioned touch. The Inner Wisdom of our patients is what teaches us. It teaches us that when the rhythm stops, what happens next is truth.
I remember my teacher John Upledger saying many times, "I know what I know and can do what I do because I have been taught by my many patients who have been my teachers." We do best as therapists when we humbly connect, wait and watch what the body has to teach us. Our old refrains apply here. We blend and trust, let time be our ally and remain present and still enough for the healing solutions to come to the knowing of the patient. We learn this skill from our patients. Our patients, one and all, are our teachers.
Thank you for reading. Comments welcome.


From the start of your journey to Nosara, your adventurous vacation can begin. The road from San José to Nosara is varied and beautiful. The drive takes approximately 5 hours and we recommend that you travel with a 4x4 vehicle.
The bus company Alfaro departs every day at 6am from San José to Nosara. The bus stop is located at Calle 14, Avenida 5. The ticket costs $8 and the trip takes approximately 51⁄2	hours, depending on traffic and road conditions. We recommend that you buy your tickets one day in advance.
Sana and Nature Air departs every day to and from San José to Nosara. The flight takes 45 minutes and the tickets costs between 70.- and 80.-$. Certain airline companies land in Liberia's international airport. From there you can rent a car as well. The drive from Liberia to Nosara takes about 21⁄2 hours. However, the majority of airline companies fly to San José.


Here in this section I have placed all the hardware and software documentation not found in any other sections. The products here are used by Norsk Data but usually not manufactured nor documented by Norsk Data itself. A description of the columns used in the standardized table can be found here, explaining the meaning of each column.


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Cubs Trade Rumors: Latest on Chicago's Pursuit of David Price and More
July 29, 2014 by Scott Polacek · Leave a Comment
Fair warning—if you are a player on the Chicago Cubs who is not named Anthony Rizzo, you may very well get traded this season. Just ask Jeff Samardzija, Darwin Barney and Jason Hammel. The Cubs clearly aren't going to compete for a postseason berth down the stretch in 2014, and the playoffs in 2015 probably aren't going to happen either. However, Chicago is loaded with young and talented prospects, including Kris Bryant, Addison Russell and Javier Baez, and counts Rizzo and Starlin Castro as potential franchise cornerstones. Cubs fans may always say "wait 'til next year," but for once it may just ...
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Stock Up, Stock Down for Chicago Cubs Top 10 Prospects for Week 17
July 28, 2014 by Joel Reuter · Leave a Comment
The focus of Chicago Cubs fans in 2014 continues to be as much on cities like Knoxville, Tennessee and Des Moines, Iowa, as it is on the city of Chicago. That's where the team's Double-A and Triple-A affiliates reside and where a number of the team's promising young prospects are currently playing on the path to the big leagues. This past week saw a pair of those top prospects take the next step in their development. On Tuesday, the team promoted Jorge Soler to Triple-A and Albert Almora to Double-A, as the two outfielders remain a big piece of the future puzzle. So here's an ...
Forget the Record, Cubs Fans Should Be Pleased with the State of the Cubs
July 24, 2014 by Jason S. Parini · Leave a Comment
Despite the team's 41-58 record, fans of the Chicago Cubs have quite a few things to be excited about for the remainder of the 2014 season. Yes, that's right. Be excited for the future, Cubs fans. Then again, the motto "wait until next year" has been the party slogan for over a century. Though the big league team is struggling, prospects throughout the Cubs farm system are progressing steadily, and core players for the team are improving as well. Many aspects of the Cubs organization have already changed, from beer vendors to advertising. And according to Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, Wrigley Field will soon ...
Cubs' Anthony Rizzo 1st in National League to Reach 25 Home Runs
July 23, 2014 by Bleacher Report Milestones · Leave a Comment
With a pair of home runs in Tuesday's 6-0 win over the San Diego Padres, Anthony Rizzo of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in the National League to reach 25 homers this season, per ESPN Stats & Info. After hitting solo shots in the third and seventh innings of Tuesday's game, the red-hot first baseman has eight homers in July and five over his last four games. He's pushed his season-long slash line to a robust .283/.385/.539, with his .924 OPS good for fifth-best in the National League. Set to turn 25 on August 8, Rizzo is in the midst ...
The focus of Chicago Cubs fans here in 2014 continues to be as much on cities like Knoxville, Tennessee, and Des Moines, Iowa, as it is on the city of Chicago. That's where the team's Double-A and Triple-A affiliates reside and where a number of the team's promising young prospects are currently playing on the path to the big leagues. This past week was certainly a memorable one for the team's top prospects. Albert Almora hit for the cycle on Monday, and then all three of the team's top three prospects in Addison Russell, Javier Baez and Kris Bryant homered on Thursday. That said, ...
Chicago Cubs Trade Deadline: Preview and Predictions
July 19, 2014 by Jacob Kornhauser · Leave a Comment
Even though the Chicago Cubs have unloaded their biggest trade pieces in Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, they still might have moves to make before the July 31 trade deadline. They have some veteran outfielders and relievers that still figure to be on the block, but not all of them are going to be dealt in all likelihood. Based on future needs at the various positions of the players on the block, what prospects they can get in return and what players are ready to take over at the positions of the players on the trade block, here are five players ...
How Will Chicago Cubs Best Use Pile of Top Prospects to Build a Winner?
July 16, 2014 by Mike Rosenbaum · Leave a Comment
It's official: The Chicago Cubs have the best collection of young hitters in all of baseball. The acquisition of shortstop Addison Russell from the Oakland A's as part of the Jeff Samardzija-Jason Hammel deal gives the Cubs five top-50 prospects in Kris Bryant (No. 3), Russell (No. 5), Javier Baez (No. 6), Arismendy Alcantara (No. 23) and Albert Almora (No. 36), while Jorge Soler and Kyle Schwarber both rank somewhere in the top 100. At the major league level, meanwhile, the Cubs have already locked up 24-year-old All-Stars Anthony Rizzo and Starlin Castro through at least the 2019 season. With a slew of ...
Starlin Castro Trade Rumors: Latest Buzz and Speculation Surrounding Cubs Star
July 15, 2014 by Chris Roling · Leave a Comment
Updates from Friday, July 18 Jon Morosi of Fox Sports has the latest on Castro: Original Text To deal or not to deal seems to be the question the Chicago Cubs face with Starlin Castro. Castro, 24, has been the subject of trade rumors for quite some time now, despite yet another quality season from him at the plate. Provided the Cubs are once again cellar-dwellers, though, it makes sense that any and all players come up in rumors. Especially when Chicago's front office makes things worse by acquiring 2012 first-round pick Addison Russell, a shortstop at 20 years of age who is one of ...
The Chicago Cubs prospect rankings were shaken up last week when the team acquired Addison Russell, Billy McKinney and Dan Straily from the Oakland Athletics in a trade that saw Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel depart. With that move, a strong case can be made that the Cubs now have the best farm system in all of baseball, though they are still thin on impact pitching prospects. Regardless, the future has never looked brighter in Chicago, and for second baseman Arismendy Alcantara, one of the team's top prospects, the future appears to be now. So here's an updated look at the team's current top ...
5 Prospects the Cubs Should Give a Shot in the Second Half
It's no secret that the Chicago Cubs possess more exciting players in the minor leagues than they do in the major leagues. As sad as it is, most of the core of the team's future hasn't played a major league game yet. While the Cubs have gotten mixed results from their top prospects, there are a select few who deserve a shot at the big leagues this season. If nothing else, calling up a couple of top prospects who are expected to be ready by Opening Day next season will let them take their lumps when it doesn't really matter. That isn't ...
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There are several ways to scan computers on networks. You might want to find the IP address of a printer, or the name of a machine so you can remote into it. Fortunately, Windows has a lot of great networking tools built in to accomplish this task. The following tutorial will explain some common networking commands that will transform you into a networking mastermind!
We will be using basic networking commands using the Command Prompt. You should first understand how your home network works. You have two primary network addresses: internal and external. The external IP address is the IP address provided by your ISP. It is the external IP address that comes in contact with the Big Bad Internet.
You also have internal IP addresses. Your router is the gateway, so its IP address will be the lowest number on the network. For example, your router might have an IP address of 192.168.1.1. The final octet has the number 1, so this is the first IP address on your network. If you only have one computer on the network, the router will assign it a different internal IP address, such as 192.168.1.2.
Launch the command prompt by typing cmd into the Windows search box and hitting enter. The very first command you should know is ipconfig. As with most commands, ipconfig has numerous switches that can be used to enhance its functionality. We want to use ipconfig to find the IP address of your computer, so we will use the switch /all.
From the command prompt, type ipconfig /all and hit enter. A lot of information will be displayed, but you only want to be concerned about the IPv4 result. In the example below, our computer's internal IP address is 192.168.1.19.
The next command we want to use is ARP. ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol. It will enable us to access the IP cache and find the IP address and MAC address of all of the machines on the network. The MAC address is the unique identifier of a network card, and is often referred to as the Physical Address. The arp command will help discover computers, printers, tablets, etc on your network.
To scan computers on networks, type arp -a and then hit enter. A large list of IP addresses and physical addresses will appear. These are all of the internet-capable devices that appear on your network.
In the example above, you will see the router and another internal networked device, along with their physical address and the type of IP address they have. The arp command can be used to find duplicate IP addresses. A duplicate IP address can happen when both a dynamic address (assigned by the router) and a static IP address (assigned by a user) share the same IP address.
The net view command is showing that there is one computer on the network and its name is MYCOMPUTERNAME.
As you can see, the above commands a great way to discover the IP addresses and computer names on your home network. Read more of our networking tutorials to learn how to manage your networked devices.


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Lehman 'ready to axe 500 jobs'
By Lachlan Colquhoun
Updated: 19:00 EST, 14 November 2002
INVESTMENT bank Lehman Brothers is set to become the latest big Wall Street firm to cut staff, with reports that 500 jobs are to go, around 4% of its 13,000 workforce worldwide.
Lehman spokeswoman Hannah Burns would not confirm the depth of the cuts, which are believed to include a top-rated analyst, but admitted job numbers were under review. She said: 'We are reviewing constantly the scope and scale of our businesses and the environment in which they operate. As a result, we have made small adjustments across all divisions and regions to reflect the challenging environment.'
The latest planned job losses follow the axing in October of 80 investment banking positions at Lehman offices in Europe. Chief investment strategist Jeffrey Applegate is believed to be the highest profile casualty of this latest round.
Lehman joins industry majors Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns in cutting staff. It reported a sharp drop in profits for the three months to 31 August, adding pressure to restructure.
According to the US Securities Industry Association, more than 67,000 jobs have been lost in the US banking industry since the beginning of 2001, with only the derivatives and fixed income areas immune from the carnage. Merrill Lynch, which let go of the high-profile Bruce Steinberg last week, has cut nearly 19,000 jobs.
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The Jewellery Editor is a finalist in the 2015 Digital Magazine Awards
Launched in 2010, the Digital Magazine Awards celebrate excellence in the digital publishing sector, attracting entries from 60 different countries.
09 October 2015 by ÅSE ANDERSON
We are thrilled to announce that The Jewellery Editor is a finalist in this year's prestigious Digital Magazine Awards.
As the leading online authority in the world of watches and fine jewellery, The Jewellery Editor has been shortlisted in the Magazine Website category alongside other highly regarded titles such as The New Yorker and GQ Australia.
Co-founder Maria Doulton says: "The Jewellery Editor team were in a meeting when news came through of the nomination. The cheer could probably be heard across London! We are delighted to be part of this prestigious award and are looking forward to the big night."
The Digital Magazine Awards were launched in 2010 to celebrate excellence in the rapidly growing digital publishing sector. Entrants are judged on a range of criteria, including creativity, innovation and commercial success. Categories include Magazine Cover of the Year, Editor of the Year and Launch of the Year, as well as sector-specific groups such as fashion, motoring and women's lifestyle.
The awards are sponsored by Edition Digital - a leading provider of multi-platform publishing solutions - and, this year, DMA has also partnered with Guardian Masterclasses to run a series of talks and educational workshops on digital publishing. Since its launch, the Digital Magazine Awards have attracted entries from 60 different countries.
The winners will be announced at an evening event following the Digital Magazine Summit on 11 November at the Proud Camden Gallery in London.
ÅSE ANDERSON
Despite her Scandinavian name, Åse has lived in the UK since the age of 10, save for a couple of years in the US and Ireland. She has more than 15 years of journalistic experience, specialising in the fashion and ...
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Q: Insert a TeX code into a math mode at LyX If i'm at math mode at LyX and I want to add a TeX code, how can I do it?
This is possible?
i.e something like: \Ding{152} (or code that is more then a symbol) in math mode.

A: In math mode just type the TeX code. Of course, you need to include used packages in the LaTeX Preamble. For example, in math mode

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*\rightarrow + space will produce ;

*if you put \usepackage{stmaryrd} into the LaTeX Preamble then you can type a\leftrightarrowtriangle b. This results in  or if "Tools > Preferences > Look&Feel > Instant Preview" is turned on then you will see  after leaving math mode;

*furthermore, you can type \def\a{\rightarrow} and use \a later on. (Be aware that copying and pasting the \def-code will transform it into a \global\long\def. This is the same as using "Insert > Math > Macro".)
Overall, you can type probably every TeX code that can be used in math mode. You might find "View > View Source" helpful to check whether LyX understood correctly what you typed. (If you interrupt typing of \ding{123} it might come out as \ding\{123\}.)


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NPG, 21, 291–301, 2014
Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 21, 291–301, 2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-291-2014
Special issue: Nonlinear dynamics in oceanic and atmospheric flows: theory...
Sensibility to noise of new multifractal fusion methods for ocean variables
A. Turiel et al.
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea
Verónica González-Gambau, Estrella Olmedo, Antonio Turiel, Cristina González-Haro, Aina García-Espriu, Justino Martínez, Pekka Alenius, Laura Tuomi, Rafael Catany, Manuel Arias, Carolina Gabarró, Nina Hoareau, Marta Umbert, Roberto Sabia, and Diego Fernández
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-461,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-461, 2022
Preprint under review for ESSD
We present the first Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) dedicated products over the Baltic Sea (ESA Baltic+ Salinity Dynamics). The Baltic+ L3 product covers 9 days in a 0.25º grid. The Baltic+ L4 is derived by merging L3 SSS with sea surface temperature information, giving a daily product in a 0.05º grid. The accuracy of L3 is 0.7-0.8 and 0.4 psu for the L4. Baltic+ products have shown to be useful covering spatio-temporal data gaps and for validating numerical models.
New SMOS SSS maps in the framework of the Earth Observation data For Science and Innovation in the Black Sea
Estrella Olmedo, Verónica González-Gambau, Antonio Turiel, Cristina González-Haro, Aina García-Espriu, Marilaure Gregoire, Aida Álvera-Azcárate, Luminita Buga, and Marie-Hélène Rio
We present the first dedicated satellite salinity product in the Black Sea. We use the measurements provided by the European Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission. We introduce enhanced algorithms for dealing with the contamination produced by the Radio Frequency Interferences that strongly affect this basin. We also provide a complete quality assessment of the new product and give an estimated accuracy of it.
Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1
Justino Martínez, Carolina Gabarró, Antonio Turiel, Verónica González-Gambau, Marta Umbert, Nina Hoareau, Cristina González-Haro, Estrella Olmedo, Manuel Arias, Rafael Catany, Laurent Bertino, Roshin P. Raj, Jiping Xie, Roberto Sabia, and Diego Fernández
Revised manuscript accepted for ESSD
Measuring salinity from space is challenging since the sensitivity of the brightness temperature to sea surface salinity is low, but this is even more challenging the retrieval of the SSS in the cold waters. In 2019, ESA launched a specific initiative called Arctic+Salinity to produce an enhanced Arctic SSS product with better quality and resolution than the available products. This paper presents the methodologies used to produce the new enhanced Arctic SMOS SSS product.
Nine years of SMOS sea surface salinity global maps at the Barcelona Expert Center
Estrella Olmedo, Cristina González-Haro, Nina Hoareau, Marta Umbert, Verónica González-Gambau, Justino Martínez, Carolina Gabarró, and Antonio Turiel
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 857–888, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021, 2021
After more than 10 years in orbit, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) European mission is still a unique, high-quality instrument for providing soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity (SSS) over the oceans. At the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), a new reprocessing of 9 years (2011–2019) of global SMOS SSS maps has been generated. This work presents the algorithms used in the generation of the BEC global SMOS SSS product v2.0, as well as an extensive quality assessment.
The Arctic Front and its variability in the Norwegian Sea
Roshin P. Raj, Sourav Chatterjee, Laurent Bertino, Antonio Turiel, and Marcos Portabella
Ocean Sci., 15, 1729–1744, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1729-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1729-2019, 2019
In this study we investigated the variability of the Arctic Front (AF), an important biologically productive region in the Norwegian Sea, using a suite of satellite data, atmospheric reanalysis and a regional coupled ocean–sea ice data assimilation system. We show evidence of the two-way interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean at the AF. The North Atlantic Oscillation is found to influence the strength of the AF and may have a profound influence on the region's biological productivity.
Preface: Current perspectives in modelling, monitoring, and predicting geophysical fluid dynamics
Ana M. Mancho, Emilio Hernández-García, Cristóbal López, Antonio Turiel, Stephen Wiggins, and Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri
Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 25, 125–127, https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-125-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-125-2018, 2018
Remote sensing of ocean surface currents: a review of what is being observed and what is being assimilated
Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, Antonio Turiel, and Emilio García-Ladona
Ocean currents play a key role in Earth's climate – they are of major importance for navigation and human activities at sea and impact almost all processes that take place in the ocean. Nevertheless, their observation and forecasting are still difficult. Here, we review the main techniques used to derive surface currents from satellite measurements and the existing approaches to assimilate this information into ocean models.
New methodology to estimate Arctic sea ice concentration from SMOS combining brightness temperature differences in a maximum-likelihood estimator
Carolina Gabarro, Antonio Turiel, Pedro Elosegui, Joaquim A. Pla-Resina, and Marcos Portabella
The Cryosphere, 11, 1987–2002, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1987-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1987-2017, 2017
We present a new method to estimate sea ice concentration in the Arctic Ocean using different brightness temperature observations from the Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite. The method employs a maximum-likelihood estimator. Observations at L-band frequencies such as those from SMOS (i.e. 1.4 GHz) are advantageous to remote sensing of sea ice because the atmosphere is virtually transparent at that frequency and little affected by physical temperature changes.
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Trade Negotiations With Our Neighbors Should Put U.S. Business Interests First
In recent days, news has come that President Donald Trump remains committed to striking the best possible deal for the U.S. in current renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even if that means missing internal deadlines set by Congress. This is good news, as it is critical that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer protects the future of this important agreement.
By modernizing NAFTA in a way that safeguards American business interests and reflects changes in the trade landscape over the past 24 years, the administration can make good on its promise to put America first.
As CEO of one of the nation's largest oilfield services company, I am acutely aware of how NAFTA has been a win for the U.S. economy, particularly when it comes to our energy sector. I also know how important NAFTA is to achieving the president's vision of American "energy dominance" as a strategic, economic and foreign policy goal of our nation.
The energy sector needs a modernized and strengthened NAFTA, and here's why. The energy landscape in North America has been fundamentally transformed since NAFTA was signed in 1994, especially when it comes to energy commodities. Today, the United States is the world's largest energy producer, taking advantage of a remarkable shale gas revolution and new advances in oil exploration and recovery.
A nation that was heavily dependent on foreign energy sources two decades ago is now set to become a net energy exporter by 2022. Our North American partners, Canada and Mexico, are large energy producers themselves, but also significant marketplaces for American energy resources. Mexico now accounts for more than 60% of U.S. natural gas exports, while Canada takes 61% of our oil exports.
Without NAFTA, much of the energy growth in the U.S. – including the shale revolution – would not have been possible. But a key provision of NAFTA, the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism, has also been critical to providing a winning framework for growing America's energy sector.
At its core, ISDS protects American businesses from harmful decisions made by foreign governments, providing a legal recourse where other options fail. This mechanism has proved indispensable on a number of occasions, including a case in which a change in India's government affected a major power project investment by General Electric (along with Bechtel Enterprises). In that case, General Electric won a settlement of $160 million in 2003 after neutral judges ruled that an abrupt change in energy policy unfairly hurt these investors. In another case, ISDS was instrumental in helping U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. recover $1 billion in damages after the government of Ecuador wronged the company. In that case, ISDS judges found that Ecuador's tax policies were unfairly prejudiced against foreign investors. After nine years, Occidental won a victory because of ISDS's arbitration requirement.
Despite its strong track record, the U.S. negotiation team has yet to firmly commit to the inclusion of the ISDS mechanism in a new NAFTA. With Mexico's leading presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, floating the idea of closing Mexican energy markets to private companies, U.S. energy investors could soon need the valuable protection of the ISDS provision in that nation. Simply put, any "good" deal or "America first" renegotiation of NAFTA must include ISDS.
The U.S. economy is finally starting to find its legs after years of debilitating recession that hurt workers and stifled investment. Now, with comprehensive tax reform in hand and the American economy on the path to a 3% or higher increase, the time has come to pave the way for a bright economic future. This future will be fueled to no small degree by the health of our burgeoning energy sector.
However, to get there, we must shore up ties with our two closest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, with a new version of NAFTA that recognizes the changing energy landscape, includes vital protections like ISDS, and forges even stronger pathways for trade and investment across the continent. By doing this, the president can make good on his commitment to put America first and signal a victory for American businesses and workers.


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  # amazonaws.com is the official download host per the vendor homepage
  url 'https://paddle.s3.amazonaws.com/fulfillment_downloads/1657/492767/MemoryTamer.zip'
  appcast 'https://rink.hockeyapp.net/api/2/apps/128ebd3240db358d4b1ea5f228269de6',
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Flamborough Head Lighthouse
Image by Steve Cheetham
Image by Simon Millyard
Flamborough Head Lighthouse was built in 1806 to guide deep sea vessels and coastal traffic and mark the headland for vessels heading for Scarborough and Bridlington
1st Order catadioptric rotating
433,000 candela
A lighthouse was first established at Flamborough by Sir John Clayton in 1669, but was never kindled. The name Flamborough was first thought to be derived from it being the place of the flame, but in the Domesday Book the word is spelt 'Flaneberg', possibly from the Saxon 'Flaen' meaning a dart, which the shape of the headland resembles.
The present lighthouse was designed by Trinity House architect Samuel Wyatt and constructed by John Matson of Bridlington in 1806 at a cost of £8,000 and lit on 1 December. The original lighting apparatus was designed by George Robinson and consisted of a rotating vertical shaft to which was fixed 21 parabolic reflectors, seven on each of the three sides of the frame. Red glass covered reflectors on each side, giving for the first time in lighthouse characteristics two white flashes followed by one red flash. This was an innovation quickly adopted elsewhere. The lighthouse was oil-burning, with an equivalent candle power of 13,860.
The following description of Flamborough Head Lighthouse is taken from Joseph Cotton's Memoir on the Origin and Incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond written in 1818:
"The site of Flamborough Head was of all others the most calculated for a lighthouse, either for coasters or for vessels from the Baltic and North Sea, but it was not concurred in by the trade until lately, when its utility having been admitted, the present lighthouse was erected, and the light exhibited upon the principle of the Scilly light, but with coloured red glass in front of the burners, by which it is distinguished from Cromer."
In 1940 the lighthouse was electrified and further modifications took place in 1974. An electric fog signal was installed in 1975 replacing diaphone apparatus. In former times a rocket was discharged every five minutes in foggy weather reaching an altitude of 600 feet.
Flamborough Head Lighthouse was automated in early 1996, the keepers leaving on 8 May. The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House's Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.
Flamborough Head Lighthouse visitor centre
Bamburgh Lighthouse
Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands
Coquet Lighthouse
Coquet Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1841 on the south western shore of Coquet Island, a small low tract of green pastureland lying off the Northumberland coast
Farne Island Lighthouse
Farne Island Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1811 off the coast of Northumberland to guide ships through the hazardous archipelago of islands situated in the main deep water coastal shipping lanes