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Freezing DA Hike Drastic; Impact on Pensioners, Inhumane, says Employee Council
Saunak Chowdhury
Pensioners at a rally last year
KOLKATA: On 23rd of April, the Finance Ministry decided to postpone the hike in dearness allowance and dearness relief July 2021. In an office memo, the Department of Expenditure said, "In view of the crisis arising out of COVID-19, it has been decided that additional instalment of dearness allowance payable to central government employees and dearness relief (DR) to central government pensioners due from January 1, 2020, shall not be paid." Furthermore, the memo added, "The additional instalment of DA and DR due from July 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021, shall also not be paid."
On Friday, the national council of the joint consultative machinery harshly criticized this move in a letter to the Cabinet Secretary. They lambasted the decision by saying that it will cause immense financial hardship to pensioners and is nothing short of drastic. The council demanded an immediate rollback of the decision.
The council didn't leave out on highlighting the mental agony that employees, in the front-lines of the battle against COVID-19, would face if this decision isn't reversed.
In the letter, the council's general secretary Shiva Gopal Mishra wrote that the employees of central and state governments were the real warriors in the fight against the virus, with many of them "working in the field exposing themselves without sufficient PPE". Hence, the move to freeze DA would cause mental agony to the employees, he wrote.
Additionally, he stated, "The constituent organisations of the national council are shocked to note the arbitrary decisions taken by the government to freeze DA. Before taking such a decision, the government has not bothered to consult the staff side of the council."
The letter asked the government to be aware of the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities during the pandemic and cautioned about the repercussions of the decision.
The letter further added, "Railways employees are deployed in various activities such as track signalling and special trains transporting essential goods. Almost all departments are involved in activities during the lockdown. The ordinance factories are directly involved in manufacturing protective equipment. Ignoring all the contribution…the government is targeting them. Nearly 48 lakh central government employees and 65 lakh pensioners do not deserve such a treatment from the government."
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"Low" is the debut single by American rapper Flo Rida, featured on his debut studio album Mail on Sunday and also featured on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Step Up 2: The Streets. The song features fellow American rapper T-Pain and was co-written with T-Pain. There is also a remix in which the hook is sung by Flo Rida rather than T-Pain. An official remix was made which features Pitbull and T-Pain. With its catchy, up-tempo and club-oriented Southern hip hop rhythms, the song peaked at the summit of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
The song was a massive success worldwide and was the longest running number-one single of 2008 in the United States. With over 6 million digital downloads, it has been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA, and was the most downloaded single of the 2000s decade, measured by paid digital downloads. The song was named 3rd on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. "Low" spent ten consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, the longest-running number-one single of 2008.
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X-Dream are Marcus Christopher Maichel (born May 1968) and Jan Müller (born February 1970); they are also known as Rough and Rush. They are some of the cult hit producers of psychedelic trance music and hail from Hamburg, Germany.
The latest X-Dream album, We Interface, includes vocals from American singer Ariel Electron.
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Muller was educated as a sound engineer. Maichel was a musician familiar with techno and reggae, and was already making electronic music in 1986. In 1989 the pair first met when Marcus was having problems with his PC and someone sent Jan to help fix it. That same year they teamed up to work on a session together. Their first work concentrated on a sound similar to techno with some hip hop elements which got some material released on Tunnel Records.
During the early 1990s they were first introduced to the trance scene in Hamburg and decided to switch their music to this genre. From 1993 they began releasing several singles on the Hamburg label Tunnel Records, as X-Dream and under many aliases, such as The Pollinator. Two albums followed on Tunnel Records, Trip To Trancesylvania and We Created Our Own Happiness, which were much closer to the original formula of psychedelic trance, although featuring the unmistakable "trippy" early X-Dream sound.
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Radio is the fifth and latest studio album by Jamaican reggae and hip-hop artist Ky-Mani Marley, released on September 25, 2007. It topped the Billboard Reggae Charts at #1 in October 2007. The album features much more hip hop influences than his previous releases.
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The Roman province of Macedonia (Latin: Provincia Macedoniae, Greek: Ἐπαρχία Μακεδονίας) was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last self-styled King of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia in 148 BC, and after the four client republics (the "tetrarchy") established by Rome in the region were dissolved. The province incorporated ancient Macedonia, with the addition of Epirus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria, Paeonia and Thrace. This created a much larger administrative area, to which the name of 'Macedonia' was still applied. The Dardanians, to the north of the Paeonians, were not included, because they had supported the Romans in their conquest of Macedonia.
After the reforms of Diocletian in the late 3rd century, Epirus Vetus was split off, and sometime in the 4th century, the province of Macedonia itself was divided into Macedonia Prima in the south and Macedonia Secunda or Salutaris in the north. These provinces were all subordinate to the Diocese of Macedonia, one of three dioceses comprising the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum. When the Prefecture was divided between the Western and Eastern Empires in 379, the Macedonian provinces were included in Eastern Illyricum. With the permanent division of the Empire in 395, Macedonia passed to the East, which would evolve into the Byzantine Empire.
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In September 1944, Nazi Germany briefly sought to establish an Independent State of Macedonia a puppet state in the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that had been occupied by the Kingdom of Bulgaria following the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. When Soviet Union forces approached the borders of Bulgaria near the end of August 1944, Bulgaria declared neutrality and briefly sought to negotiate with the Western Allies. As the Bulgarian government was not impeding the withdrawal of German forces from Bulgaria or Romania, that forced the Soviet Union to treat it with suspicion. On 2 September a new pro-Western government took power in Sofia, only to be replaced a week later by a pro-communist government after a Fatherland Front–led revolt. However, on 5 September 1944, the Soviets declared war on Bulgaria.
The person that the Germans turned to in order to implement this scheme was Ivan Mihailov. Mihailov was a Bulgarophile right-wing politician and former leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) that had been engaged in terrorist activity in Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia. Mihailov had become leader of IMRO in 1927 and under his leadership the organisation had joined forces with the Croatian Ustaše in 1929. The two organisations had planned and executed the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934. After the military coup d'état in the same year IMRO was banned by the authorities. Mihailov fled to Turkey and then Italy, where most of the Ustaše were also in exile. After the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Mihailov had moved to Zagreb where he had acted as an advisor to Ante Pavelić. In January 1944 he had successfully lobbied the Germans to arm some Ohrana supporters and have them placed under Schutzstaffel (SS) command in Greek Macedonia, which had also been annexed by the Bulgarians in 1941.
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The name "Macedonia" is used in a number of competing or overlapping meanings to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples in a part of south-eastern Europe. It has been a major source of political controversy since the early 20th century. The situation is complicated because different ethnic groups use different terminology for the same entity, or the same terminology for different entities, with different political connotations.
Historically, the region has presented markedly shifting borders across the Balkan peninsula. Geographically, no single definition of its borders or the names of its subdivisions is accepted by all scholars and ethnic groups. Demographically, it is mainly inhabited by four ethnic groups, three of which self-identify as Macedonians: two, a Bulgarian and a Greek one at a regional level, while a third ethnic Macedonian one at a national level. Linguistically, the names and affiliations of languages and dialects spoken in the region are a source of controversy. Politically, the rights to the extent of the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives has led to a diplomatic dispute between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. Despite mediation of the United Nations, the dispute is still pending resolution since 1993, but as a result it was admitted under the provisional reference of the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", sometimes abbreviated as FYROM.
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Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Recruit Sounds of Blackness for New Song 'Til' I Found You'
Legendary production and songwriting duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis hope to uplift and make us fall in love with music again with their forthcoming complication album of new music, Jam & Lewis: Volume One.
"Til' I Found You," the project's lead single, brings together the powerful voices of Ann Nesby and the late-Big Jim Wright (of Sounds of Blackness) and Lauren Evans. The inspirational collaboration finds the trio opening up heavens doors with their strong vocal presence as they give praise and thanks to God most high.
When it came to selecting this moving new record to launch their new era, Jam expressed that he and Lewis wanted to take it back to the beginning when they signed Sounds of Blackness as the first act on their original Perspective Records. Their Grammy-winning album, The Evolution of Gospel, featured their number one single "Optimistic," which Jam and Lewis co-composed and co-produced.
"It felt great to be back in the studio with Sounds of Blackness and create new music we're really proud of," shared Lewis in a statement. "The track definitely sets the tone for the album. We can't wait for our fans to hear what's next."
Slated to arrive later this summer, Jam & Lewis: Volume One will release through their relaunched Perspective Records. The duo rebooted the label last year with legend Peabo Bryson as the centerfold.
"He's such a quality artist," Jam told Rated R&B in 2018. "He's like that fabric maker who is bringing you the best silk and the best cotton in the highest quality. So when we put those fabrics together and custom make our suits, it's the finest suit you can buy. We can try to put that same suit on someone else but they're not going to be able to wear it like he can wear it. Peabo can wear it with so much class and sophistication, which is what he brings to music."
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But first to Gen Stanley McChrystal who was always quite a favourite with me if only because he understood that if innocent lives were lost in the struggle against terrorism some form of apology, if not outright recompense, were immediately in order.
So, there he was, this rough and ready general, standing on the doorstep of those who had been affected, saying sorry. He was there too, his lean and businesslike look for all to see, leading his men from the front.
But, to say what he said must have taken some brass, some idiocy! "Biden who?" about the vice president; likening Holbrooke to a wounded animal and the president's national security advisor Gen James Jones to a joker or some such; and describing certain events in barrack language which does not bear repeating in this family newspaper.
As someone has already said, McChrystal's shooting off at the mouth could be a direct result of his being exposed rather a lot to Pakistani generals who say what they want when they want with complete and utter abandon. And, as we say in the vernacular 'take their eyes out' (aankhein nikaltay hain) at any 'bloody civilian' who dares question their pronouncements.
We must note here and now the shameful way in which, barring DawnNews, not one TV channel spoke about the message that President Obama's firm and correct handling of McChrystal's shooting off at the mouth should have immediately sent to the Pakistani civilian leadership and to Pakistani army generals: that this was the only correct and appropriate way of dealing with insubordination. Instead, all we saw were a few senior pundits tiptoeing around the issue as if they were ballerinas dancing on broken glass.
What makes this so much more important is the fact that the completely unmilitary and ill-disciplined way in which our prima donna brass hats, a most appropriate term used by President Truman for Gen Douglas MacArthur when MacArthur attempted to become emperor of all he surveyed and was sacked for his pains, behaved at the time of the announcement of the Kerry-Lugar Bill far surpassed anything McChrystal said or did.


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Richard Reid shares tribute after heartbreaking loss
"I love and miss you already" - by Erin Doyle
Richard Reid has paid a heartbreaking tribute to a beloved family member, after his step-father Ron sadly passed away last week.
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Taking to Instagram, the TV personality shared a series of photos of himself with Ron, as well as Ron in his younger years, bidding a fond farewell.
"It's time to say good-bye to my awesome step-father, Ron, who left us on Friday," entertainment reporter Richard wrote.
"My dad would have turned a remarkable 94 years old this week! As many of you know, Ron married my mom when I was just 7 years old and was a true God-send."
Richard Reid (right) has paid tribute to his stepfather Ron (left) who passed away on Friday.
Reflecting on Ron's valuable effect on his life and childhood, Richard had nothing but praise as he continued the tribute.
"It takes a special guy to take on the responsibly of a woman with three bratty kids, however that's the sort of man Ron was. Kind, smart, stable but with an adventurous spirit, Ron was never at a loss for words, a laugh or a long-winded story which was always worth the wait. What a life well lived!" he added.
"Now he's onto his next great adventure and he's good with that. Good luck, Ron. I love and miss you already."
Ron in his younger years.
Richard's high-profile friends sent their condolences in the comments section, with Angie Kent writing: "Richard. My heart. I'm so sorry. He's always with you Big daddy. I love you very much."
Meanwhile, Yvie Jones added: "Oh Richard I'm so sorry. He sounded like such a lovely man. Send your Mom and Deane my love and condolences xx"
Julia Morris also sent her well wishes, penning, "Oh Richard, I'm so sorry for your loss. Jx" and Myf Warhurst added, "So sorry to hear this news. Love and strength to you xxx"
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During his stint in the jungle, Richard opened up about some of his personal issues – including his decision to quit drinking after a string of incidents that became the catalyst to change his ways.
Following his win, Richard told Now To Love that it was life-changing to be so candid about his struggles on the show even though he was initially hesitant about opening up
"I could be the best possible person that I could be in there, and it really showed that I can trust people more than I had been willing to in the past," he said.
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While there are some fast cash loans online that may be easily accessible, don't simply apply for a loan and accept it before taking a look at how much you have to pay back. Loans that can be acquired without obtaining too much information regarding employment and credit history may be a big indicator of a loaner that is going to charge a huge interest rate. Finding a low interest rate, in terms of getting fast cash loans online is deal, but you may have to do a bit of fishing around to find the best loan. If you are unsure of which loan you want to get, you may want to input your information into various loan websites and compare the terms, in order to select the best applicable loan.
If you do find a loan that you qualify for and decide that you would like to get the cash, you may want to give them a call and ask about the terms, simply to get everything verified. A bunch of cash loan services are known for being on the shadier side, where they will provide a loan to someone, while expecting a huge payback in the form of a large interest rate, so make sure you find out how much you want to pay back. While you may find yourself in a desperate cash situation and need the money as soon as possible, take the time to find out how much you have to pay back and how long you have to repay.


One of the security challenges for critical network applications such as Exchange and Internet Information Services (IIS) is selecting the appropriate type of account for the application to use.
If you configure the application to use a domain account, you can isolate the privileges for the application, but you need to manually manage passwords or create a custom solution for managing these passwords. Many server applications use this strategy to enhance security, but at a cost of additional administration and complexity.
In these deployments, service administrators spend a considerable amount of time in maintenance tasks such as managing service passwords and service principal names (SPNs), which are required for Kerberos authentication. In addition, these maintenance tasks can disrupt service.
What's new in service accounts?
Two new types of service accounts are available in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows® 7—the managed service account and the virtual account. The managed service account is designed to provide crucial applications such as IIS with the isolation of their own domain accounts, while eliminating the need for an administrator to manually administer the service principal name (SPN) and credentials for these accounts. Virtual accounts in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are "managed local accounts" that can use a computer's credentials to access network resources.
Who will want to use service accounts?
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Virtual accounts simplify service administration by eliminating password management and allowing services to access the network with the computer's account credentials in a domain environment.
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Unlike with normal local computer and user accounts, the administrator does not have to complete complex SPN management tasks to use managed service accounts.
Administrative tasks for managed service accounts can be delegated to non-administrators.
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Are there any special considerations for using the new service account options?
To use managed service accounts and virtual accounts, the client computer on which the application or service is installed must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, one managed service account can be used for services on a single computer. Managed service accounts cannot be shared between multiple computers and cannot be used in server clusters where a service is replicated on multiple cluster nodes.
If the domain controller is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the schema has been upgraded to support managed service accounts, both automatic password and SPN management are available.
If the domain controller is on a computer running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 and the Active Directory schema has been upgraded to support this feature, managed service accounts can be used and service account passwords will be managed automatically. However, the domain administrator using these server operating systems will still need to manually configure SPN data for managed service accounts.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Triangle
by Billie Doux
Buffy: "You want credit for not feeding off bleeding disaster victims?"
Spike: "Well, yeah."
Buffy: "You're disgusting."
Spike: "What's it take?"
So we have Buffy moping over Riley's departure, Anya and Willow bickering with Xander in the middle, and Giles discovering that he can't leave any of the Scoobies in charge of the shop for more than a few hours. *yawn*
Maybe that's unfair. There were definitely several things I liked about this episode:
1. I love Spike. Practicing his apology on the Buffy dummy was hilarious. I also liked Spike trying to pump Xander for any info on how Buffy was taking her breakup with Riley. And copping a Buffy feel during the fight scene. And telling the troll that he could probably find babies to eat in the hospital.
2. Anya never really has been part of the gang, and this episode finally addresses her ex-demon-not-really-one-of-us status. It makes sense that Willow is concerned that Anya is eventually going to hurt Xander in a big way. And it also makes sense that Anya feels threatened by Xander's friends. But we knew all that already.
3. The Buffy and the nun thing at the beginning was cute.
4. Is it me, or does Buffy not seem all that broken up about Riley? I mean, she's teary-eyed and she's upset about the possibility of anyone else breaking up, but it's not anything like her breakup with Angel. Right?
Bits and pieces:
-- Marc Blucas is no longer in the opening credits. Guess he really is gone... although I'll bet he shows up sooner or later as a guest star.
-- "Hello, gay now."
-- What's with the nun in the opening scene having a lock of hair hanging out of her wimple? And do nuns even wear those all encompassing wimples any more?
-- Why did Giles have to go all the way to England to check with the Watchers Council about Glory? Or was that just a plot device to get him out of the way so that we could see his reaction when he came back and found the shop destroyed?
-- If Dawn didn't know before that something is going on, she sure does now.
Buffy: "So, um, about being a nun... you know, um, with the whole abjuring the company of men... you know, how's that working for you? The abjuring."
Nun: "Um ... good."
Buffy: "Do you have to be like super-religious?"
Nun: "Well, uh..."
Buffy: "How's the food?"
Giles: "The resources that the Watchers Council has at their disposal... I mean the Central Library alone is just..."
Buffy: "Don't talk about the books again. You get all ... and sometimes there's drool."
Willow: "We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens, but it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane."
Tara: "I said 'quirky'."
Giles: "Anya, while I completely trust you to take care of the inventory and the money, um ... dealing with people requires a certain, uh ... finesse."
Anya: "I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!"
Willow: "I'm not stealing. I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?"
Tara: "Willow says that things always happen for a reason."
Buffy: "But you ever notice people only say that about bad things?"
Olaf: "Barmaid! Bring me stronger ale, and some plump, succulent babies to eat."
Xander: "I'm gonna run and get Buffy. Or maybe you could fight him."
Spike: "Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much."
Olaf: "You there! Do you know where there are babies?"
Spike: (to Xander) "What do you think, the hospital?"
Willow: "I wish Buffy was here."
Buffy: (comes in) "I'm here."
Willow: "I wish I had a million dollars. (The others look at her) Just checking."
Anya: "I would never hurt Xander! You really think I would do that?"
Willow: "Anya, it's what you do. You spent what, a thousand years hurting men? You got your 'thousand years of hurting men' gold watch?"
Anya: "How can I help?"
Willow: "Distract him from Buffy. Piss him off."
Anya: "I don't know how."
Willow: "Anya, I have faith in you. There is no one you cannot piss off."
Anya: "Hey Olaf! You're as inadequate a troll as you were a boyfriend. You're hairy, and unattractive, and even women trolls are put off by your various odors. Your menacing stance is merely alarming. And your roar is less than full-throated."
Giles: "I cringe to think what the place would have looked like if I'd been away for longer than three days."
Buffy: "Well, maybe we would have had time to clean it up. You know, if Willow used some magicks to help."
Giles: "Yes, 'cause nothing could possibly go wrong with that."
Two out of a possible four stakes,
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catbee1 Friday, April 20, 2012 at 5:15:00 PM EDT
hey billie, I think that you're review of triangle is slightly unfair. The plot is hilarious with all the odd pairings and the troll. Spike is fantastic in this episode with the practising the apology and helping the disaster victims for buffy! Admittedly I am a HUGE Spike fan and love the whole awkwardness thing between him and Buffy. Sarah Michelle Gellar is also excellent in her acting with the breaking down in tears so easily and the scene with her and Tara is brilliant. Just thought you should know and personally I would give it 4/4 stakes. Love almost all your reviews and am a huge fan.
Anonymous Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 10:18:00 PM EDT
I liked this one too, in large part because of the troll. He was a nice (and very amusing) change of pace from the usual run of scowling demons and vampires. The scene with Xander where the troll tries to get him to "choose" was hilarious and scary at the same time. The troll really meant business, but he was endearingly amiable about it.
Victoria G Sunday, December 22, 2013 at 11:57:00 AM EST
Notice how Anya, near the end, offers her life in order to save Xander. She really does love him.
Remco Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 9:47:00 PM EST
This is indeed a boring episode. And I don't like how they on the one hand pretend that Buffy is really broken up about Riley, and on the other hand play her grief for laughs. Maybe they should just have admitted that Buffy/Riley didn't really work and have Buffy come to a surprising revelation that she really doesn't care all that much that he's gone.
Billie Doux Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 10:18:00 PM EDT
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sunbunny Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 12:09:00 AM EDT
How can you guys not love this episode? It's hilarious. Troll humor, Buffy crying over the possibility of Xander and Anya's breakup? Quality Anya time. Willow: I wish Buffy were here Buffy: I'm here!
It's just such a cutie patootie episode. Filler, certainly, but good filler. And I'm happy they didn't let Buffy be all wallowy and angsty over Riley's departure. Comedically depressed Buffy is much more entertaining. I met a nun and she let me try on her wimple.
Juliette Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 5:21:00 AM EDT
I liked the choice to play it for laughs as well, sunbunny. We've seen enough Buffy relationship angst for several lifetimes!
I like this episode. It sort of highlights the double standard the gang always seem to apply to Spike and Anya (no one seems to care about all the people Anya murdered over the centuries) while at the same time pointing out the differences between them (Anya loves Xander and would sacrifice herself for him - though it's still pretty Xander-specific and how is that really different from Spike?).
Also, ysy for Jerry from ER!
When I watched this and taped it on VHS, I missed the beginning. Somehow I have never got around to catching up outside of my old VHS video, so the nun scene is one of the only scenes in the whole of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (along with all of 'Hell's Bells' and 'Seeing Red' from season 6, which I won't discuss here because spoilers) that I haven't ever seen!
Ren Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 11:34:00 AM EDT
I LOVED this episode for all the reasons sunbunny said above. My only criticism would be - whose bright idea was Buffy's awful lopsided pigtail hairdo?
mjkbk Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 8:21:00 PM EDT
The blonde lock escaping from the nun's wimple was supposed to make us momentarily think it was Buffy HERSELF.....so broken up about Riley that she joined a convent.
And yes, some orders still wear more traditional habits like this--but that errant lock of hair would be a definite no-no. Maybe this nun wasn't so ready, after all, to abjure the company of her hairdresser. ;-)
Josie Kafka Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 10:53:00 PM EDT
Troll!
Olaf makes this episode perfect. I always smile when Abraham Benrubi is onscreen in anything.
Jane Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 12:09:00 AM EDT
I enjoyed this one too. Anya is a favorite of mine. I like her unfiltered look at the world. Its a perfect way to poke at the Scoobies and their foibles kind of indirectly.
I'm too happy Riley has gone to have any patience with sad Buffy moping over him so I'm very glad they played it for laughs. Her sudden and inappropriate investment in Xander & Anya's relationship was perfect.
Ren - I think Buffy's pigtails were a nod to Riley's departure. That was a break-up hairdo if I've ever seen one.
ChrisB Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 1:38:00 PM EDT
I like this one as well, simply because of the scene with Spike and the Buffy dummy. When he starts again, I always laugh out loud.
Jane -- break-up hairdo? LOL
drnanamom Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 3:31:00 PM EDT
One of my favorite bits of this episode was the chatter between Xander and Spike about women. We always see women talking about the men in their lives in a serious way but men, not so much. I also admire how they manage to balance the comedy, pathos and danger that is Spike.
Annie Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 4:44:00 AM EDT
There's so much fun in this episode, I agree with the general consensus of comments. My personal favorite moment, as usual, comes from Spike. It's when he suggests the hospital as a place to get babies, its just too funny!
Docnaz Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 12:46:00 PM EDT
Just popping in to say I was starting Season 4 Episode 20 Yoko Factor and saw "previously on Buffy", then "previously on Angel". Argh! Now iI realize I have to go back and watch all of Angel. See you guys next year, lol.
AndyDecker Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 3:38:00 PM EDT
Still don't like it. There is some weird overacting, especially on Gellar's part. Her hysterics about Anya and Xander breaking up was so fake. And Olaf is just dumb. Compared to most of Angel's flashbacks I thought all of Anya's backstory unconvincing and lame.
Best scene goes again to Spike. His rehearsal is hilarious.
TJ Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 6:56:00 AM EDT
I think this episode is hilarious. The car scene when Willow gets accidentally spell-less always makes me lolling.
Mallena Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 5:22:00 PM EST
This is one of my favorites. So funny and highlights how great Emma Caulfield is as Anya. Four out of four baby eating trolls from me.
Onigirli Monday, July 26, 2021 at 12:51:00 AM EDT
Buffy getting comically overemotional made me think something went wrong with that spell Willow was performing with Anya's interruptions, it only hit me near the end of the episode when it never comes up again that it was really Buffy herself lol. It's kinda funny, and pretty cute to think on it now but it definitely didn't feel like her.
I hated her pigtails and wish she stuck with the hairstyle she had at the beginning of Fool For Love when she got staked. So pretty there
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Objective: The introduction of new services in a rehabilitation center is a unique opportunity to introduce a new model of care and services between two institutions. A hospital and a rehabilitation center experienced a clinical management model inspired by an American approach – collaborative care. The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation of this approach and to provide a perception of the quality of care and services provided to patients with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and to their caregivers.
Materials and methods: In this qualitative study, individual semistructured interviews were conducted with patients and their caregivers in the hospital and rehabilitation center where the patients were treated. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with administrators, and two focus groups were held with clinicians before and after the implementation.
Results and conclusion: Ten days' waiting time were saved with the collaborative approach. Implementing the collaborative care approach has been found to have several benefits, including improved communication, coordination of services between institutions, and better preparation, awareness, and involvement of patients and their families. Administrators, clinicians, patients, and caregivers expressed their opinions on the organization of care and services, the needs and expectations of patients and their caregivers, their participation in terms of roles and responsibilities, their perception of continuity of care, their satisfaction with the care process, and their suggestions for improvements.
Rehabilitation services and professional resources are heavily mobilized by patients with a traumatic brain injury (PTBI). According to a report on severe trauma in Canada, in 2010–2011 there were 15,190 people with serious brain injuries, of which 77% were due to an accidental fall or a collision involving a motor vehicle.1 According to data on the website of the Regroupement des Associations de Personnes Traumatisées Craniocérébrales du Québec, each year some 13,000 people suffer a TBI in Québec alone.2 Of this number, nearly 3,000 require hospitalization, with an average hospital stay of 16 days.1,2 As reported by McGarry et al, the cost of such hospitalization is high, estimated at US$8,189 for 6.7 days in hospital for a moderate TBI and $16,788 for 10.2 days for a severe TBI.3 These data do not include posthospital rehabilitation, which can average 23 days at a cost of around $46,000. Brain-injury cases put a high demand on professional resources, hospitals, and rehabilitation services.
Recently, a rehabilitation center (RC) and a university hospital center (UHC) set out to improve quality of care and services provided in trauma units. The two institutions found that different factors were compromising the quality and efficiency of care delivery. For example, each facility operated independently, resulting in a fragmentation of services and patients' needs that had a direct impact on the rehabilitation process. Though each institution was expected to provide a continuum of care and services, both observed that they were unable to meet the needs of their patients in a timely fashion. Because the health care system is organized in silos, the lack of coordination in service provision had a direct impact on PTBI.4 With emergency departments overloaded, PTBI occupy hospital beds (at an average cost of $1,000 per day) while waiting for a place in a rehabilitation unit.
The CC approach is defined as the "coordinated application of a process of clinical management, centered on the quality of clinical results, assessed by the comprehensiveness and the particularity of the people living the experience of health, in a context of interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration".7 It involves multiple organizations and partners, and attempts to coordinate all systems related to a given client's care episode, while eliminating any repetitive, redundant, expensive, contradictory, or inadequate measures. Focused more on the client and caregiver, the approach facilitates collaborative work between all of the various partners involved. Clinicians work together to ensure that clients and caregivers are included in decision making, and to maintain the continuity of care and services between different partners and institutions. These aims require recognition of the competence of each professional and partners involved, which in turn develops collaboration, cohesion, alliances, and mutual assistance between everyone providing care and services. Lastly, the CC approach is an innovative management model that allows the quality of care to be measured, taking into account the close connection between on the one hand organizational structure and the communication process and on the other hand outcomes.8 The CC approach was implemented in both facilities in 2008 for patients admitted with a moderate or severe TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale score ranging from 3 to 12).
The main objective of this study was to describe whether applying the CC approach yielded good quality care and services provided to PTBI and their caregivers from the hospital to the rehabilitation center, as perceived by the hospital administrators, clinicians, patients themselves, and their caregivers.
The project was approved by the UHC's Health Research Ethics Committee and the RC's Research Ethics Committee. Prior to any participant's involvement, the research team explained the aims and procedures involved in the study, and participants agreed to participate by signing a consent form.
At baseline, the two institutions involved had a service relationship that referred to working in silos. The acute care setting was referring the PTBI to the rehabilitation setting when the medical condition was considered stable by physicians. At that moment, if a bed was available in the rehabilitation setting, then the transfer took place. Communication was limited to paper between the liaison nurses. Families were not always involved in the process, nor were patients included in the care plan discussion having the patient or the caregiver as a decision maker.
Four groups of stakeholders were defined and recruited using a nonprobabilistic sampling strategy. Convenience sampling was used to recruit administrators and clinicians from both the UHC and the RC to populate the first and second groups, respectively. All administrators and clinicians had to be involved with the target PTBI and represent different disciplines or professions.
PTBI recruitment was accomplished with the help of the UHC clinical coordinator and the clinical trauma nurse. They were asked to refer to us, after admission to intensive care, any patients with moderate or severe TBI whose rehabilitation was to take place at the UHC and the RC. On receiving a referral, the research assistant met the patient and caregiver to present the research project, obtain their consent, and schedule the first interview. Purposive sampling was used to generate the third group, which consisted of patients over 18 years of age who had suffered a moderate or severe TBI and had agreed to participate. These patients received care and services at the UHC, followed by inpatient or outpatient services from the RC. The fourth group consisted of these patients' caregivers. All participants in both these groups had to be able to speak and understand French or English and live within a 100 km radius of the UHC or RC.
Guides for the semistructured interviews and focus groups, constructed following Morgan and Krueger's methodology, were used for collecting data from the four groups.9 All questions pertained to study objectives by addressing the quality of care and services provided and the level of satisfaction with the CC approach, specifically the organization of care in the context of post-PTBI rehabilitation, the needs and expectations of all stakeholders (administrators, clinicians, patients, caregivers), the participation of these stakeholders in terms of involvement and responsibilities, the perception of continuity of care, and the satisfaction level of clinicians and administrators regarding the care process before and after implementation of CC. The same questions were asked of all stakeholders.
Two semistructured interviews and two focus groups were conducted with the administrators and clinicians from UHC and RC, respectively. Each pair of interviews and focus groups was separated by an interval of 1 year. Individual semistructured interviews of about 45 minutes were conducted with the patients and their caregivers. The interviews took place at two points: while patients were hospitalized at the UHC and after their return home, 1 month after leaving the RC's rehabilitation unit. All discussions were recorded on audiotape and transcribed verbatim for coding and analysis. Notes taken during the focus groups were also used as a data source.
Qualitative content analysis served to generate themes and classify the responses into categories. The frequency of recurrence of each theme was taken into account. These categories were compared to potential categories drawn from a literature review. To categorize and structure the analysis, we followed the steps proposed by Guba and Lincoln for a constructivist evaluation.10 Qualitative data from the interviews and focus groups were coded using NVivo 7 software (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia).11 In order to ensure the validity of the results, data were triangulated by two research assistants and verified randomly by the researchers.
The clinicians chosen for the focus groups (four from the UHC, ten from the RC) represented several disciplines, including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, neuropsychology, nursing, and medicine. Six administrators were interviewed individually, three from each institution.
In total, there were 68 patients with recruitment potential, but only 27 met the study criteria. Of those, 12 patients agreed to participate in the study, though only eleven completed both interviews. Figure 1 provides a summary of recruitment efforts and reasons for exclusion from the study.
Abbreviations: UHC, university hospital center; RC, rehabilitation center.
Characteristics of PTBI participants (n=11, 63.6%) were men aged 40.7±18.3 years, a little over half of whom had suffered a severe TBI. Road accidents were the most common cause for the injury. Nine patients had a caregiver aged 23–70 years (average 50.7 years) that agreed to participate in the study. Most of the caregivers were women (88.9%), and 45.5% were a parent of the patient. Please see Table 1.
Themes identified in the interviews and focus groups are presented in the following sections.
For the clinicians, patient management was done through evaluation and follow-up, intervening to inform the patient of how his condition was evolving.
In summary, while the clinicians wanted to transfer patients as quickly as possible from the UHC to the RC, their families were not always prepared for the transfer or given adequate advanced notice.
Interviewer: When you say that you or your loved one get good care and services, what do you mean?
In our analysis of the qualitative data, we found that the clinicians were focused on the patients' needs, which were to regain a similar degree of autonomy to what they had before their accident. They were also aware that the families wanted to contribute.
In all the interviews, we found that two stakeholders were actively involved with the patient and the patient's family. Clinicians have disciplinary involvement, one to one with the patient or family, but there was no evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration in patient-centered group meetings or rehabilitation plans involving all stakeholders with reference to the patient's or family's needs, having the patient or the caregiver present as a decision maker. The perception of the intervention team was that interprofessional intervention between sites did not occur.
According to the administrators and clinicians, the clinical care pathways to assure continuity of care worked out for CC were little used and needed to be reviewed because the process was too unwieldy. Nevertheless, they reported that CC contributed to better communication, helped avoid repeating assessments, gave fluidity and coordination to services between the two institutions, and fostered a change in ways of thinking. One thing they were especially proud of was the reduction in waiting times for patients to be transferred from the UHC to the RC. The average waiting time fell from 15–20 days to 0–2 days.
Most of the patients and their caregivers noticed that there was no waiting period before the transfer from the UHC to the RC, and felt there was good coordination and continuity of care from one institution to the other. It is important to note that all stakeholders agreed that the patients received good care, at the right time, from the right person, and in the right place.
Regarding most of the care and services received, the patients and caregivers were highly satisfied, going so far as to rate them ten out of ten. There was some dissatisfaction with elements externals to CC, such as the quality of meals, difficulties with the nursing staff, and the unavailability of some physicians in private clinics. It should be noted that one caregiver reported that the timetable for meetings with RC clinicians conflicted with his job. Another hinted that physicians at the RC were not always available.
Administrators and clinicians suggested revising the clinical pathways, meeting more frequently with patients and especially caregivers, eliminating the step of going through the physiatrist for discharge from the UHC (redundant, stretches out the hospital stay), involving nursing staff more, and extending CC to other clienteles. Therefore, there are still improvements to be made in patient transfer and teamwork.
For patients and caregivers, it is important to improve the organization of care and services generally, and to have better access to care and physicians. It is also important to improve relational aspects like communication, listening, information, and support.
The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation of CC and to provide a perception of the quality of care and services for TBI patients. The CC approach requires that every stakeholder be involved with every care episode. As noted by Cope et al, optimal rehabilitation of PTBI requires coordination between the acute care provided in hospitals and the type of care offered in rehabilitation centres.12 The CC approach was designed to bridge the gap between institutions that provide care to PTBI and optimizing rehabilitation by reducing the transfer time. Reducing the transfer time to 1 day is a sign of efficient care.
Both institutions in our study focused on a patient's physical needs with regard to improving their state of health. Few studies have looked at the needs of PTBI during hospitalization, despite findings that change depends on the circumstances of the rehabilitation process.14 As for the needs of caregivers, they were like those in studies published in the literature on the needs of families with a relative in critical care.17–23 These articles demonstrate the importance placed by families on being informed of the loved one's state of health.
There are limitations in our study, including the small number of patients available for recruitment. This can be explained by a regional reorganization of patient distribution that took place during the study period, resulting in fewer patients being sent to the institutions included in the study. In addition to this, a number of patients in our target population received rehabilitation care outside the region and were thus not included in our study.
The implementation of the CC approach at our institution yielded favorable results in terms of the quality of care and services provided to PTBI, as perceived by the patients themselves, their caregivers, clinicians, and hospital administrators. Patients reported being satisfied with the care and services they received, while clinicians and administrators reported improvements in transfer times between institutions as well as better coordination of care between the hospital and rehabilitation center.
The authors wish to thank the Fonds de recherche Québécois en santé for its financial support, and the patients, caregivers, clinicians, and administrators for their time and wise suggestions. Many thanks to Jennifer Chambers for her excellent suggestions during the scientific review.
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Over the past several weeks work was conducted by Geolabs and Towill Shigeoka to complete both the geotechnical and topographical surveys. Although the work on site has been completed we are awaiting the final reports. We have decided to defer to a later date the hazmat survey until we have a better sense of whether a soil sampling will be required as part of the survey.
Design team proposals have been received from Mitsunaga & Associates, Inc., G70 (formerly known as Group 70), Domus Studio/Inform Design, and Saavedra Gehlhausen. Analysis of the proposals is currently underway along with group interviews. All of the prospective design teams are being asked to review their fee proposals with an eye toward lowering fees. It is expected that a final design team selection will be made in the next several weeks.
Once negotiations are completed the work to review the findings in the original Master Plan, conduct additional analysis of design options and updated cost estimates will lead from conceptual design to schematics that will lead to construction/bid documents.


I know some of you have concerns and questions about optrimax.
so, hopefully i'll be able to answer them all in this post..
well, is eating such low calories is dangerous..?
well, it is okay actually..
first, your body needs to detox so you need to eat less and let your digestive system focus on detoxing the toxin.
Secondly, recent studies have shown that eating less than 1000kcal is actually healthier for you.
There's an article about this tribe that consume less than 1000kcal a day and they live longer (their insides age differently)!
The scientist in the show explained that that is because the pancreas in our body have different timing to do different jobs (super layman term, i'm super sorry) in the day, they produces digestive enzymes to digest food, at night they excrete the same enzymes to repair cells.
so if you have less food in a day, your pancreas can work better to renew our system.
in conclusion, less calories is okay. but not extreme reduction in calories.
still take 3 meals or more a day.
firstly, it's all natural ingredients!
and also in this program, u actually need to take in more water than usual.
i don't see why it's bad?
however, this program advocates that it helps to boost your metabolism and thus... i assume fat burning will be faster and easier?
next, where do purchase them from?
see the SHOP NOW! button?
lastly, advocating wrong body image?
omg, i'm really sorry if i did..
but i didn't intend to.
just to clarify, i'm pretty short. my bmi might be just a little lower than normal healthy range.
i'm asian and my bones are quite small.
looking great is never about seeing bones and all..
but it's about looking toned up!
like when u walk down the runway, your fats won't go wobbly jelly on you.
looking great is looking healthy, feeling healthy and loves being healthy.
exercise, eat healthy food and drink lotsa of water.
went out to shop for winter clothes after that..
one hour later, i've got to eat the plum!!
omg! so nice!! best part of the diet!
still mustered my courage to drink it. cause it seems like it's working!
day 3: No more lethergy!
smoothie tasted NICE for the first time!
looking forward for lunch and dinner!
went home and had yogurt.
still continues to clear my bowels every morning. haha.
don't worry it's not runny stools, really normal stools.
one more day to day 5!!
and the end of my program!
to be honest, i really wanted to quit on day 2..
but the thought of having nothing to blog about online (since i've raved about it on my instagram before) really pushes me to endure.
cause day 3 was soooo much easier!
soo to all the girls out there trying optrimax, if you want to quit..
endure for one more day..
and PS: don't go anorexic k! remember exercise and eat healthy food to build lean muscles!
if u just diet without exercise, u will look like satay sticks with lard..
and STRETCH marks will appear..
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Rail transport authorities around the world have been facing a significant challenge when predicting rail infrastructure maintenance work for a long period of time. Generally, maintenance monitoring and prediction is conducted manually. With the restrictions in economy, the rail transport authorities are in pursuit of improved modern methods, which can provide precise prediction of rail maintenance time and location. The expectation from such a method is to develop models to minimize the human error that is strongly related to manual prediction. Such models will help them in understanding how the track degradation occurs overtime under the change in different conditions (e.g. rail load, rail type, rail profile). They need a well-structured technique to identify the precise time that rail tracks fail in order to minimize the maintenance cost/time and secure the vehicles. The rail track characteristics that have been collected over the years will be used in developing rail track degradation prediction models. Since these data have been collected in large volumes and the data collection is done both electronically and manually, it is possible to have some errors. Sometimes these errors make it impossible to use them in prediction model development. This is one of the major drawbacks in rail track degradation prediction. An accurate model can play a key role in the estimation of the long-term behavior of rail tracks. Accurate models increase the track safety and decrease the cost of maintenance in long term. In this research, a short review of rail track degradation prediction models has been discussed before estimating rail track degradation for the curve sections of Melbourne tram track system using Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model.
ANFIS, MGT, Prediction modeling, rail track degradation.
Nowadays, tunnels with different applications are developed, and most of them are related to subway tunnels. The excavation of shallow tunnels that pass under municipal utilities is very important, and the surface settlement control is an important factor in the design. The study sought to analyze the settlement and also to find an appropriate model in order to predict the behavior of the tunnel in Tehran subway line-3. The displacement in these sections is also determined by using numerical analyses and numerical modeling. In addition, the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) method is utilized by Hybrid training algorithm. The database pertinent to the optimum network was obtained from 46 subway tunnels in Iran and Turkey which have been constructed by the new Austrian tunneling method (NATM) with similar parameters based on type of their soil. The surface settlement was measured, and the acquired results were compared to the predicted values. The results disclosed that computing intelligence is a good substitute for numerical modeling.
Settlement, subway line, FLAC3D, ANFIS method.
In this paper, vibration control response of passenger seat in quarter car model having three degrees of freedom is studied. Three different control strategies are taken into account using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) controller. In first case, ANFIS controller is applied in main suspension of active quarter car model. In second case, passenger seat suspension is assembled with ANFIS controller. Finally, both main and passenger seat suspensions are integrated with ANFIS controller. Simulation work under random road excitations is performed using passive and controlled quarter car models for performance comparison of passenger ride comfort. Ride comfort analysis is also compared as per ISO 2631-1 criterion. The obtained simulation responses are compared taking passenger seat acceleration and displacement response in time and frequency domain for the selection of best control strategy in designed quarter car model.
Active suspension system, ANFIS controller, passenger ride comfort, quarter car model.
Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is one of the most prominent rapid prototyping (RP) technologies which is being used to efficiently fabricate CAD 3D geometric models. However, the process is coupled with many drawbacks, of which the surface quality of the manufactured RP parts is among. Hence, studies relating to improving the surface roughness have been a key issue in the field of RP research. In this work, a technique of modelling the surface roughness in FDM is presented. Using experimentally measured surface roughness response of the FDM parts, an ANFIS prediction model was developed to obtain the surface roughness in the FDM parts using the main critical process parameters that affects the surface quality. The ANFIS model was validated and compared with experimental test results.
Surface roughness, fused deposition modelling, adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system, ANFIS, orientation.
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) represents a system of wireless mobile nodes that can self-organize freely and dynamically into arbitrary and temporary network topology. Unlike a wired network, wireless network interface has limited transmission range. Routing is the task of forwarding data packets from source to a given destination. Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol creates a path for a destination only when it required. This paper describes the implementation of AODV routing protocol using MATLAB-based Truetime simulator. In MANET's node movements are not fixed while they are random in nature. Hence intelligent techniques i.e. fuzzy and ANFIS are used to optimize the transmission range. In this paper, we compared the transmission range of AODV, fuzzy AODV and ANFIS AODV. For soft computing AODV, we have taken transmitted power and received threshold as input and transmission range as output. ANFIS gives better results as compared to fuzzy AODV.
ANFIS, AODV, fuzzy, MANET, reactive routing protocol, routing protocol, Truetime.
BCI (Brain Computer Interface) is a communication machine that translates brain massages to computer commands. These machines with the help of computer programs can recognize the tasks that are imagined. Feature extraction is an important stage of the process in EEG classification that can effect in accuracy and the computation time of processing the signals. In this study we process the signal in three steps of active segment selection, fractal feature extraction, and classification. One of the great challenges in BCI applications is to improve classification accuracy and computation time together. In this paper, we have used student's 2D sample t-statistics on continuous wavelet transforms for active segment selection to reduce the computation time. In the next level, the features are extracted from some famous fractal dimension estimation of the signal. These fractal features are Katz and Higuchi. In the classification stage we used ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System) classifier, FKNN (Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbors), LDA (Linear Discriminate Analysis), and SVM (Support Vector Machines). We resulted that active segment selection method would reduce the computation time and Fractal dimension features with ANFIS analysis on selected active segments is the best among investigated methods in EEG classification.
EEG, Student's t- statistics, BCI, Fractal Features, ANFIS, FKNN.
The present work demonstrates the design and simulation of a fuzzy control of an air conditioning system at different pressures. The first order Sugeno fuzzy inference system is utilized to model the system and create the controller. In addition, an estimation of the heat transfer rate and water mass flow rate injection into or withdraw from the air conditioning system is determined by the fuzzy IF-THEN rules. The approach starts by generating the input/output data. Then, the subtractive clustering algorithm along with least square estimation (LSE) generates the fuzzy rules that describe the relationship between input/output data. The fuzzy rules are tuned by Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). The results show that when the pressure increases the amount of water flow rate and heat transfer rate decrease within the lower ranges of inlet dry bulb temperatures. On the other hand, and as pressure increases the amount of water flow rate and heat transfer rate increases within the higher ranges of inlet dry bulb temperatures. The inflection in the pressure effect trend occurs at lower temperatures as the inlet air humidity increases.
Air Conditioning, ANFIS, Fuzzy Control, Sugeno System.
Heterogeneity of solid waste characteristics as well as the complex processes taking place within the landfill ecosystem motivated the implementation of soft computing methodologies such as artificial neural networks (ANN), fuzzy logic (FL), and their combination. The present work uses a hybrid ANN-FL model that employs knowledge-based FL to describe the process qualitatively and implements the learning algorithm of ANN to optimize model parameters. The model was developed to simulate and predict the landfill gas production at a given time based on operational parameters. The experimental data used were compiled from lab-scale experiment that involved various operating scenarios. The developed model was validated and statistically analyzed using F-test, linear regression between actual and predicted data, and mean squared error measures. Overall, the simulated landfill gas production rates demonstrated reasonable agreement with actual data. The discussion focused on the effect of the size of training datasets and number of training epochs.
The objective of this study is to design an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for estimation of surface roughness in grinding process. The Used data have been generated from experimental observations when the wheel has been dressed using a rotary diamond disc dresser. The input parameters of model are dressing speed ratio, dressing depth and dresser cross-feed rate and output parameter is surface roughness. In the experimental procedure the grinding conditions are constant and only the dressing conditions are varied. The comparison of the predicted values and the experimental data indicates that the ANFIS model has a better performance with respect to back-propagation neural network (BPNN) model which has been presented by the authors in previous work for estimation of the surface roughness.
Grinding, ANFIS, Neural network, Disc dressing.
Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is the most challenging problems in medical imaging. This paper compares the performances of Seed-Based Region Growing (SBRG), Adaptive Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Fuzzy c-Means (FCM) in brain abnormalities segmentation. Controlled experimental data is used, which designed in such a way that prior knowledge of the size of the abnormalities are known. This is done by cutting various sizes of abnormalities and pasting it onto normal brain tissues. The normal tissues or the background are divided into three different categories. The segmentation is done with fifty seven data of each category. The knowledge of the size of the abnormalities by the number of pixels are then compared with segmentation results of three techniques proposed. It was proven that the ANFIS returns the best segmentation performances in light abnormalities, whereas the SBRG on the other hand performed well in dark abnormalities segmentation.
Seed-Based Region Growing (SBRG), Adaptive Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), Fuzzy c-Means (FCM), Brain segmentation.
In this paper discrete choice models, Logit and Probit are examined in order to predict the economic recession or expansion periods in USA. Additionally we propose an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system with triangular membership function. We examine the in-sample period 1947-2005 and we test the models in the out-of sample period 2006-2009. The forecasting results indicate that the Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model outperforms significant the Logit and Probit models in the out-of sample period. This indicates that neuro-fuzzy model provides a better and more reliable signal on whether or not a financial crisis will take place.
The purpose of this paper is to present two different approaches of financial distress pre-warning models appropriate for risk supervisors, investors and policy makers. We examine a sample of the financial institutions and electronic companies of Taiwan Security Exchange (TSE) market from 2002 through 2008. We present a binary logistic regression with paned data analysis. With the pooled binary logistic regression we build a model including more variables in the regression than with random effects, while the in-sample and out-sample forecasting performance is higher in random effects estimation than in pooled regression. On the other hand we estimate an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) with Gaussian and Generalized Bell (Gbell) functions and we find that ANFIS outperforms significant Logit regressions in both in-sample and out-of-sample periods, indicating that ANFIS is a more appropriate tool for financial risk managers and for the economic policy makers in central banks and national statistical services.
Hybrid algorithm is the hot issue in Computational Intelligence (CI) study. From in-depth discussion on Simulation Mechanism Based (SMB) classification method and composite patterns, this paper presents the Mamdani model based Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (M-ANFIS) and weight updating formula in consideration with qualitative representation of inference consequent parts in fuzzy neural networks. M-ANFIS model adopts Mamdani fuzzy inference system which has advantages in consequent part. Experiment results of applying M-ANFIS to evaluate traffic Level of service show that M-ANFIS, as a new hybrid algorithm in computational intelligence, has great advantages in non-linear modeling, membership functions in consequent parts, scale of training data and amount of adjusted parameters.
Neuro-Fuzzy, Robotic Control, RBFNF, ANFIS, Hybrid GA.
In determining the electromagnetic properties of magnetic materials, hysteresis modeling is of high importance. Many models are available to investigate those characteristics but they tend to be complex and difficult to implement. In this paper a new qualitative hysteresis model for ferromagnetic core is presented, based on the function approximation capabilities of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The proposed ANFIS model combined the neural network adaptive capabilities and the fuzzy logic qualitative approach can restored the hysteresis curve with a little RMS error. The model accuracy is good and can be easily adapted to the requirements of the application by extending or reducing the network training set and thus the required amount of measurement data.
ANFIS modeling technique, magnetic hysteresis, Jiles-Atherton model, ferromagnetic core.


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Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship – Call for submissions
Image shown: Based on artwork by Selene Perez (2012 - Creativity Explored)
Artists from Ireland and abroad who are working in supported studio settings are invited to apply to Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship, an exhibition of contemporary art in Cork at the Crawford Art Gallery, the CIT Wandesford Quay gallery and Cork City Hall. This exhibition, commemorating the centenary, will build on the success of the 2013 Art of Inclusion exhibition in Cork that brought together the work of 50 artists from around the world.
All the artists in the 2013 exhibition worked in supported studios – spaces offering opportunities to artists who may previously have been unable to develop their arts practice whether from a physical lack of access to materials, lack of opportunity or because of limited expectations of them.
The 1916 Proclamation declared its resolve to cherish 'all of the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences … which have divided a minority from the majority in the past'. While 2016 is a time to remember the past, it is also an opportunity to re-imagine the future and to expand our perceptions of future possibilities for a brighter more equal society.
Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship aims to broaden the range of voices, visions, perceptions and approaches to creativity that the public engages with in cultural venues. It aims to engage the public with valuable knowledge and perspectives that are frequently absent from the world of art.
What is a supported studio setting?
A supported studio fosters and supports the individual practice of visual artists who benefit from accessibility supports to enable development of their professional development as artists.
Artists who are engaged in a sustained arts practice in a supported studio setting. The exhibition is open to artists working in all visual media. There are no limitations of place, age or status.
The exhibition title 'Perceptions' is based on the premise that when we create spaces and opportunities to listen to a broad range of diverse intelligences, perspectives and voices, our knowledge, experience and understanding of the world is enriched. The exhibition aims to present a wide variety of perceptions and hopes to promote the concept of artists as engaged active citizens. It is hoped that artists participating will explore the theme's varied definitions and will showcase original work.
Media and volume of work
The exhibition is inviting work in all visual media; for example, painting drawing, textile, sculpture, video etc. Artists are invited to submit up to four pieces.
The application process, guidelines and application form are available at http://expandingrealities.eu/exhibition-2016/submissions-invite/
Please note that work should already be in existence. There is no budget from the organisers for the artist to produce new works.
Deadline for applications: 19 February 2016. No applications will be received after this deadline.
The exhibition will take place from September to October 2016.
For further information email info@perceptions2016.com
Perceptions 2016 will also showcase some of the outcomes of the Expanding Realities project, a European Erasmus+ funded partnership. Over the next 2 years GASP Cork, Art in Motion (AIM) Bristol and Debajo del Sombrero Madrid will develop and exchange approaches to engaging the creativity and supporting the professional development of artists who have much to contribute, but face barriers in society and in the world of art.
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MHA clears CornerShot to give much needed boost to counter-insurgency operations
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To counter the rogue drone, DRDO puts plan of action in motion
By Vicky Nanjappa
| Published: Monday, November 30, 2020, 12:48 [IST]
New Delhi, Nov 30: With the drone threat looming large, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has designated Bharat Electronics as the lead agency for the production and development of an anti-drone system.
The anti-drone systems are part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security detail at his residence. The portable once will be part of his car cavalcade.
This is an important development since rogue drones have become India's latest security headache. These drones are a potential threat and the government had been looking for solutions to counter this problem. In this regard the agencies conducted a data estimation and learnt that there are over 6 lakh rogue or unregulated drones of various sizes and capacities.
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Recent incidents like the lethal drone attack on Saudi Arabia's largest petroleum company and arms dropping by UAVs in Punjab from across the India-Pakistan border has only alerted the agencies to come up with a plan to counter the drones.
These agencies are now looking at some specific anti-drone techniques like sky fence, drone gun, ATHENA, drone catcher and Skywall 100 to intercept and immobilise suspicious and lethal remote-controlled aerial platforms.
A recent paper titled 'Drones: A new frontier for Police' published in the Indian Police Journal (IPJ) by IPS officer and Additional Director General in Rajasthan Police, Pankaj Kumar Singh, has talked about these new techniques.
A drone gun is capable of jamming the radio, global positioning system (GPS) and mobile signal between the drone and the pilot and forces the drone to ground in good time before it could wreak any damage. This Australia designed weapon has an effective range of 2 kms, the paper said.
Another solution to block a lethal drone is the sky fence system that uses a range of signal disruptors to jam the flight path and prevent them from entering their target, a sensitive installation or event venue, it said.
Officials said prototypes of these counter-drone weapons were displayed for the first time at an open field in a BSF camp in Bhondsi, Haryana last week as part of a national conference organised by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) on anti-drone technology.
The Centre now wants to impart training to police officers of all states to check this menace. The Bureau of Police Research and Development is currently in talks with the police chiefs of all states so that training can be imparted to counter new terror threats that have been emerging.
OneIndia had reported recently that, a new committee was constituted by Union Home Minister, Amit Shah to analyse the various threats, including the ones that are posed by drones. In Punjab, the police found that drones were used by Pakistan to drop off weapons at the border areas, so that it could be transported to Jammu and Kashmir.
The committee held a demonstration on the anti-drone technology in Haryana, where several officers took part. Sources tell OneIndia that rogue drones pose a major threat.
This would be one of the key threats in the coming days. The police force needs to be sensitised to such threats, the officer also said.
The programme would include training in anti-drone detection, tracking and identification.
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The police would also be taught on how to handle the anti-drone equipment at critical areas including airports, which face a high level of threat from drones.
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While the technology would be used heavily in the border areas, the Centre wants the training to imparted to those officials handling airport security. Currently there is no mechanism in place at the airports to handle the threat of drones. Hence this would have to be done on a priority basis and regular training programmes would be held in this regard, the officer also said.
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