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Q: How to restrict TextField so that it can contain only one '.' character? JavaFX On the Internet, I found very useful class, using which I can restrict TextField. I encountered a problem, where my TextField can contain only one '.' character. I suspect that I can handle this by writing an appripriate regex and set it as a restriction on the instance of that class. I use the following regex: "[0-9.-]", but it allows as many dots as the user types. May I ask you to help me to configure my TextField so that no more than one '.' is allowed.
import javafx.beans.property.IntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleIntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.StringProperty;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;

/**
 * Created by Anton on 7/14/2015.
 */
public class RestrictiveTextField extends TextField {
private IntegerProperty maxLength = new SimpleIntegerProperty(this, "maxLength", -1);
private StringProperty restrict = new SimpleStringProperty(this, "restrict");

public RestrictiveTextField() {
    super("0");
    textProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<String>() {

        private boolean ignore;

        @Override
        public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends String> observableValue, String s, String s1) {

            if (ignore || s1 == null)
                return;
            if (maxLength.get() > -1 && s1.length() > maxLength.get()) {
                ignore = true;
                setText(s1.substring(0, maxLength.get()));
                ignore = false;
            }

            if (restrict.get() != null && !restrict.get().equals("") && !s1.matches(restrict.get() + "*")) {
                ignore = true;
                setText(s);
                ignore = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

/**
 * The max length property.
 *
 * @return The max length property.
 */
public IntegerProperty maxLengthProperty() {
    return maxLength;
}

/**
 * Gets the max length of the text field.
 *
 * @return The max length.
 */
public int getMaxLength() {
    return maxLength.get();
}

/**
 * Sets the max length of the text field.
 *
 * @param maxLength The max length.
 */
public void setMaxLength(int maxLength) {
    this.maxLength.set(maxLength);
}

/**
 * The restrict property.
 *
 * @return The restrict property.
 */
public StringProperty restrictProperty() {
    return restrict;
}

/**
 * Gets a regular expression character class which restricts the user input.

 *
 * @return The regular expression.
 * @see #getRestrict()
 */
public String getRestrict() {
    return restrict.get();
}

/**
 * Sets a regular expression character class which restricts the user input.

 * E.g. [0-9] only allows numeric values.
 *
 * @param restrict The regular expression.
 */
public void setRestrict(String restrict) {
    this.restrict.set(restrict);
}

}

A: There are various versions of the regex, depending on exactly what you want to support. Note that you don't only want to match valid numbers, but also partial entries, because the user has to be able to edit this. So, for example, an empty string is not a valid number, but you certainly want the user to be able to delete everything that's there while they are editing; similarly you want to allow "0.", etc.
So you probably want something like
Optional minus sign, followed by either any number of digits, or at least one digit, a period (.), and any number of digits.
The regex for this could be -?((\\d*)|(\\d+\.\\d*)). There are probably other ways to do this, some of them perhaps more efficient. And if you want to support exponential forms ("1.3e12") it gets more complex.
To use this with a TextField, the recommended way is to use a TextFormatter. The TextFormatter consists of two things: a converter to convert between the text and the value it represents (a Double in your case: you can just use the built-in DoubleStringConverter), and vice versa, and then a filter. The filter is implemented as a function that takes a TextFormatter.Change object and returns an object of the same type. Typically you either leave the Change object as it is and return it (to accept the Change "as is"), or modify it somehow. It is also legal to return null to represent "no change". So in your simple case here, just examine the new proposed text, see if it matches the regular expression, return the change "as is" if it matches and return null otherwise.
Example:
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.control.TextFormatter;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.converter.DoubleStringConverter;

public class NumericTextFieldExample extends Application {

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        TextField textField = new TextField();

        Pattern validDoubleText = Pattern.compile("-?((\\d*)|(\\d+\\.\\d*))");

        TextFormatter<Double> textFormatter = new TextFormatter<Double>(new DoubleStringConverter(), 0.0,
            change -> {
                String newText = change.getControlNewText() ;
                if (validDoubleText.matcher(newText).matches()) {
                    return change ;
                } else return null ;
            });

        textField.setTextFormatter(textFormatter);

        textFormatter.valueProperty().addListener((obs, oldValue, newValue) -> {
            System.out.println("New double value "+newValue);
        });

        StackPane root = new StackPane(textField);
        root.setPadding(new Insets(24));
        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root));
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

A: You can use the following regex,
"[^\\.]*\\.{0,1}[^\\.]"

Or as VGR has pointed out, "A period has no special meaning inside character class brackets and 0 or 1 time can be represented with a '?' (question mark).", so you can also use,
"[^.]*\\.?[^.]"

I don't know why but your class seems to append a * to the regex, so the above regex will effectively become,
"[^\\.]*\\.{0,1}[^\\.]*"

Which means,

*

*It will allow any character except a . 0 or more times (greedy).

*It will allow a . 0 or 1 times.

*It will allow any character except a . 0 or more times (greedy).

This is what you seem to be needing. DEMO

A: {[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+}

to match any number if this is in fact what you are wanting to do


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Hans Theodor Holzwarth (* 20. August 1877 in Dornhan; † 21. August 1953 in Düsseldorf) war ein deutscher Maschinenbau-Ingenieur. Bekannt wurde er als Erfinder der ersten voll funktionstüchtigen, zur Marktreife entwickelten Gasturbine.

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Hans Holzwarth wurde 1877 in Dornhan bei Schramberg geboren. Sein Vater Albert Holzwarth war Schultheiß der Stadt Schramberg und wurde später für seine Verdienste um die Industrialisierung der Stadt zum Ehrenbürger von Schramberg ernannt.

Nach der Schulzeit studierte Holzwarth Maschinenbau an der TH Stuttgart, wo er 1901 die Erste Staatsprüfung ablegte. Es folgte eine kurze berufliche Tätigkeit bei MAN, dann arbeitete Holzwarth von 1903 bis 1908 bei Hooven, Owens, Rentschler & Co (H.O.R.) in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Für H.O.R. entwickelte er zunächst eine als Hamilton-Holzwarth-Turbine bekannt gewordene Dampfturbine In die Zeit bei H.O.R. fiel aber auch der Beginn seiner Entwicklungsarbeit an einer "Verpuffungs-Gasturbine".

Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Deutschland war Holzwarth kurz freiberuflich tätig, um sich ganz der Weiterentwicklung und Vermarktung seiner Gasturbine zu widmen. Er wurde Angestellter der Maschinenfabrik Thyssen & Co. in Mülheim an der Ruhr, in deren Auftrag er (mit finanzieller Unterstützung seines Vetters Erhard Junghans, Miterbe und kaufmännischer Leiter der Uhrenfabrik Junghans) die ersten beiden funktionierenden Prototypen baute. Nach einer längeren Zusammenarbeit mit Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC) gründete Holzwarth 1927 in Mülheim schließlich seine eigene Firma, die Holzwarth-Gasturbinen GmbH.

Die Holzwarth-Gasturbine

Die von Holzwarth ab 1905 entwickelte "Explosions"-Turbine unterscheidet sich grundlegend von heute gängigen Gasturbinen dadurch, dass die Verbrennung bei der Holzwarth-GT in einem durch Ventile abgeschlossenen Brennraum mit konstantem Volumen (isochor), diskontinuierlich getaktet, durch einen Magnetzünder gezündet abläuft. Holzwarth übernahm diese Funktionsweise vom Ottomotor. Da der Druckanstieg in der Brennkammer erst durch die Zündung des Gases entsteht, kam die Holzwarth-GT ohne Turbokompressor aus. Die eigentliche Expansionsturbine übernahm Holzwarth von den Dampfturbinen; es handelt sich um eine 2-stufige Curtis-Turbine.

Holzwarth-Turbinen wurden vor allem von BBC bis Ende der 1930er Jahre in größerer Zahl gebaut; später setzte sich die heute übliche Bauweise mit Turbokompressor, kontinuierlicher Verbrennung und offener Brennkammer durch.

Ehrungen
 1927: Ehrendoktorwürde der TH Stuttgart.
 1952: Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Manfred Busch: Die Holzwarth-Gasturbine. In: Stuttgarter technikgeschichtliche Vorträge. 1980/81, S. 161ff.
 Hans Holzwarth: Die Gasturbine – Theorie, Konstruktion und Betriebsergebnisse von zwei ausgeführten Maschinen. Oldenbourg Verlag, München 1911.

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Maschinenbauingenieur
Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes 1. Klasse
Absolvent der Universität Stuttgart
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Clinical Science| September 1995
Clinical Trial of a New Lightwand Device (Trachlight) to Intubate the Trachea
Orlando R. Hung, MD;
Orlando R. Hung, MD
Saul Pytka, MD;
Saul Pytka, MD
Ian Morris, MD;
Ian Morris, MD
Michael Murphy, MD;
Michael Murphy, MD
Gordon Launcelott, MD;
Gordon Launcelott, MD
Sarah Stevens, MD;
Sarah Stevens, MD
William MacKay, MD;
William MacKay, MD
Ronald D. Stewart, MD
(Hung) Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesia.
(Pytka, Morris, Launcelott, MacKay) Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesia.
(Murphy) Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Anaesthesia.
(Stevens) Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesia.
(Stewart) Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Anaesthesia.
Received from the Department of Anaesthesia and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Submitted for publication December 1, 1994. Accepted for publication May 27, 1995. Supported in part by a grant from Laerdal Research Foundation, Armonk, New York.
None of the authors has any financial relationship with Laerdal Medical.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Hung: Department of Anaesthesia, Victoria General Hospital, 1278 Tower Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2Y9. Address electronic mail to: orlando.hung@ac.dal.ca.
Anesthesiology September 1995, Vol. 83, 509–514..
Orlando R. Hung, Saul Pytka, Ian Morris, Michael Murphy, Gordon Launcelott, Sarah Stevens, William MacKay, Ronald D. Stewart; Clinical Trial of a New Lightwand Device (Trachlight) to Intubate the Trachea. Anesthesiology 1995; 83:509–514. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-199509000-00009
Transillumination of the soft tissue of the neck using a lighted stylet (lightwand) is an effective and safe intubating technique. A newly designed lightwand (Trachlight) incorporates modifications to improve the brightness of the light source as well as flexibility. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness and safety of this device in intubating the trachea of elective surgical patients.
Healthy surgical patients were studied. Patients with known or potential problems with intubation were excluded. During general anesthesia, the tracheas were intubated randomly using either the Trachlight or the laryngoscope. Failure to intubate was defined as lack of successful intubation after three attempts. The duration of each attempt was recorded as the time from insertion of the device into the oropharynx to the time of its removal. The total time to intubation (TTI), an overall measure of the ease of intubation, was defined as the sum of the durations of all (as many as three) intubation attempts. Complications, such as mucosal bleeding, lacerations, dental injury, and sore throat, were recorded.
Nine hundred fifty patients (479 in the Trachlight group and 471 in the laryngoscope group) were studied. There was a 1% failure rate with the Trachlight, and 92% of intubations were successful on the first attempt, compared with a 3% failure rate and an 89% success rate on the first attempt with the laryngoscope (P not significant). All failures were followed by successful intubation using the alternate device. The TTI was significantly less with the Trachlight compared with the laryngoscope (15.7 +/- 10.8 vs. 19.6 +/- 23.7 s). For laryngoscopic intubation, the TTI was longer for patients with limited mandibular protrusion and mentohyoid distance, with a larger circumference of the neck, and with a high classification according to Mallampatti et al. However, there was no relation between the TTI and any of the airway parameters for Trachlight. There were significantly fewer traumatic events in the Trachlight group than in the laryngoscope group (10 vs. 37). More patients complained of sore throat in the laryngoscope group than in the Trachlight group (25.3% vs. 17.1%).
In contrast to laryngoscopy, the ease of intubation using the Trachlight does not appear to be influenced by anatomic variations of the upper airway. Intubation occasionally failed with the Trachlight but in all cases was resolved with direct laryngoscopy. The failures of direct laryngoscopy were resolved with Trachlight. Thus the combined technique was 100% successful in intubating the tracheas of all patients.
intubation, light wand, medical devices, trachea, laryngoscopes, airway device, airway structure, neck
Methods: Healthy surgical patients were studied. Patients with known or potential problems with intubation were excluded. During general anesthesia, the tracheas were intubated randomly using either the Trachlight or the laryngoscope. Failure to intubate was defined as lack of successful intubation after three attempts. The duration of each attempt was recorded as the time from insertion of the device into the oropharynx to the time of its removal. The total time to intubation (TTI), an overall measure of the ease of intubation, was defined as the sum of the durations of all (as many as three) intubation attempts. Complications, such as mucosal bleeding, lacerations, dental injury, and sore throat, were recorded.
Results: Nine hundred fifty patients (479 in the Trachlight group and 471 in the laryngoscope group) were studied. There was a 1% failure rate with the Trachlight, and 92% of intubations were successful on the first attempt, compared with a 3% failure rate and an 89% success rate on the first attempt with the laryngoscope (P not significant). All failures were followed by successful intubation using the alternate device. The TTI was significantly less with the Trachlight compared with the laryngoscope (15.7 plus/minus 10.8 vs. 19.6 plus/minus 23.7 s). For laryngoscopic intubation, the TTI was longer for patients with limited mandibular protrusion and mentohyoid distance, with a larger circumference of the neck, and with a high classification according to Mallampatti et al. However, there was no relation between the TTI and any of the airway parameters for Trachlight. There were significantly fewer traumatic events in the Trachlight group than in the laryngoscope group (10 vs. 37). More patients complained of sore throat in the laryngoscope group than in the Trachlight group (25.3% vs. 17.1%).
Conclusions: In contrast to laryngoscopy, the ease of intubation using the Trachlight does not appear to be influenced by anatomic variations of the upper airway. Intubation occasionally failed with the Trachlight but in all cases was resolved with direct laryngoscopy. The failures of direct laryngoscopy were resolved with Trachlight. Thus the combined technique was 100% successful in intubating the tracheas of all patients.
Key words: Anesthetic techniques: laryngoscopy; tracheal intubation. Equipment: lightwand.
TRACHEAL intubation is traditionally performed by direct vision using a laryngoscope. The success of laryngoscopic intubation depends largely on the experience of the intubator and the patient's upper airway anatomy. Occasionally, even in the hands of experienced laryngoscopists, intubation by direct vision can be difficult or impossible. This difficulty with intubation has led to the development of alternate techniques. Transillumination of the soft tissue of the neck using a lighted stylet (lightwand) is one such technique. Several lightwands are commercially available, but these instruments have limitations, primarily related to the brightness of the light source and lightwand flexibility.
A newly designed lightwand (Trachlight, Laerdal Medical, Armonk, NY) addresses both of these deficiencies. [1]The Trachlight consists of three parts: a reusable handle, a flexible wand, and a stiff retractable stylet (Figure 1). The wand consists of a durable, flexible plastic shaft with a bright light bulb affixed to the distal end. The retractable stylet is inserted into the wand to give sufficient stiffness to enhance maneuverability during intubation (Figure 2). When the stylet is partially retracted, the distal part of the wand becomes flexible, allowing the endotracheal tube to be advanced into the trachea. Although the brighter light source and the flexible wand of the Trachlight may enhance the effectiveness of intubation, there are no scientific data to confirm this. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness and safety of this device compared with conventional laryngoscopy in intubating the tracheas of elective surgical patients.
Figure 1. The Trachlight consists of three parts: a reusable handle, a flexible wand, and a stiff retractable stylet.
Figure 2. After the insertion of the wand of the Trachlight into the endotracheal tube, a 90 degrees bend is made at the distal end of the tube to form the "field hockey stick" configuration.
After the institutional research review board had approved the study, we recruited 950 elective surgical patients. Informed consent was obtained from American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2 patients older than 16 yr who required orotracheal intubation. Excluded were patients who could not cooperate to allow adequate airway assessment during the preoperative visit, patients with a history of previous difficult intubation, patients with cervical spine fracture or cervical spine instability, patients with tumors, polyps, foreign bodies in the upper airway, patients with a history of gastroesophageal reflux, and patients scheduled for major cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.
During the preoperative visit, with the patient in the semisitting position, the airway was assessed, and the following measurements were made and recorded: (1) with the mouth widely open, the maximum distance between the upper and lower incisors or between the gingival margins in the edentulous; (2) the maximum distance of protrusion of the mandible relative to the maxilla; (3) the distance between the mentum and sternal notch with the neck in full flexion; (4) the distance between the mentum and sternal notch with the neck in full extension; (5) the distance between the mentum and hyoid bone; and (6) the circumference of the neck at the thyroid prominence. The pharyngeal structures were assessed with the patient's mouth widely opened as described by Mallampatti et al. [2]The demographics such as age, sex, weight, and height were also noted.
It is clear that experience has an influence on successful time to intubation (TTI). All the investigators in this study were experienced with the use of Trachlight and were also experienced laryngoscopists.
The patient's trachea was intubated orally using either a laryngoscope or the Trachlight determined by a coin toss. Intubations were performed with the patients' head and neck placed in a neutral position for the Trachlight and a conventional "sniffing" position for direct laryngoscopy. Endotracheal tubes with an internal diameter of 7 mm were used for female patients and 8 mm for male patients. After the induction of anesthesia and muscle relaxation, three attempts were allowed for each intubating technique by one of the investigators (all authors except R.D.S.). Oxygenation was permitted between each attempt. External manipulation of the larynx was used when necessary during laryngoscopy. Failure to intubate was defined as the inability to place the endotracheal tube into the trachea after three attempts. The alternative technique was used to intubate the trachea after a failed intubation (i.e., Trachlight in the laryngoscope group and laryngoscope in the Trachlight group). The duration of each attempt was recorded as the time from inserting the device (the Trachlight or laryngoscope) into the oropharynx to the time when the device was removed from the oral cavity. The total TTI was defined as the sum of the durations of all intubation attempts (as many as three) before the use of the alternative intubating technique. Failed intubations were not included in the determination of the mean total TTI for either technique. After tracheal intubation, the oropharynx was examined for evidence of complications, such as, mucosal bleeding, lacerations, and dental injury. At the conclusion of surgery and anesthesia, extubation was carried out using routine extubation criteria. [3]After extubation, the nurses in the postanesthesia care unit, who were unaware of the intubating technique, were instructed to ask the patients for complaints of dry throat, sore throat, and hoarseness before discharge from the unit. All complications were recorded.
The data are reported as means plus/minus SD unless otherwise specified. All continuous data were analyzed using unpaired t tests. The nominal data were analyzed using the chi-squared contingency table. Correlation of variables were examined by linear regression for continuous data and Spearman's rank-order correlation for ordinal data. Statistically significant difference was considered if P < 0.05.
Nine hundred fifty patients were studied, with 479 patients in the Trachlight group and 471 patients in the laryngoscope group. The demographics of both groups are shown in Table 1. There were no statistically significant differences in age, weight, and height between the two groups. The trachea was successfully intubated in every patient using either the laryngoscope or the Trachlight. The results and complications are summarized in Table 2.
Table 1. Demographics of the Patients Studied
Table 2. Results and Complications of the Study
Of all the successful Trachlight intubations, 92% were successful after one attempt (mean TTI for one attempt was 14.0 plus/minus 8.2 s) with a further 7.6% after two attempts and 0.3% after three attempts. Similarly, 89% of laryngoscopic intubations were successful with one attempt, 8.7% with two attempts, and 2.1% with three attempts (P not significant). There were 5 failures in the Trachlight group and 13 failures in the laryngoscope group with an overall success rate of 97.2% (P not significant).
The TTI was significantly less with the Trachlight compared with the laryngoscope (16 plus/minus 11 vs. 20 plus/minus 24 s). However, this difference became less evident when only the successful intubations after the first attempt were compared between the two groups. Close to 95% of all lightwand intubations were performed within 30 s (Figure 3) whereas approximately 85% of all laryngoscopic intubations were performed within 30 s (P not significant).
Figure 3. The percentage of patients intubated versus the intubation time between the two study groups. Approximately 95% of lightwand intubations (LW) were performed within 30 s, whereas 85% of laryngoscopic intubations (LG) were performed within 30 s (P not significant).
Using linear regression, the correlations between the TTI and different airway measurements are shown in Figure 4for the laryngoscope group. The TTI was inversely related to mandibular protrusion and mentohyoid distance. In addition, the TTI was directly related to the circumference of the neck. However, there was no obvious relation between the TTI and neck flexion, neck extension, mouth opening and body mass index. There was a direct relation between the TTI and Mallampatti et al.'s [2]classification (Spearman's correlation coefficient = 0.25; P < 0.01) In contrast, there were no significant correlations between the TTI and any of the airway parameters for Trachlight (Figure 5).
Figure 4. The relation between the total time to intubation (TTI) and various airway measurements for the laryngoscope group.
Figure 5. The relation between the total time to intubation (TTI) and various airway measurements for the lightwand group.
There was a significantly lower incidence of traumatic events in the Trachlight group compared with the laryngoscope group (10 vs. 37). Most of the trauma consisted of minor mucosal bleeding or mucosal laceration. One patient lost a tooth during laryngoscopic intubation. There was no dental injury in the Trachlight group. During postoperative assessment of throat discomfort, more patients complained of sore throat in the laryngoscope group than in the Trachlight group (25.3% vs. 17.1%). An additional 5% of the patients in both groups also complained of a dry throat. One patient in the laryngoscope group had significant sore throat and dysphagia that required admission to hospital for 24 h of observation.
Most intubations using the Trachlight (78.5%) were carried out successfully under ambient light. However, some patients who were either obese or had "thick" necks, required neck shading or a reduction in the ambient lighting from dimmed (8.7%) to dark (all lights off, 12.2%) to improve visualization of transillumination during the Trachlight intubation.
Our data have shown that Trachlight is an effective and safe intubating device. Although there is a statistically significant difference in the total intubation time between Trachlight and laryngoscopic intubation, in experienced hands the small (4-s) difference is of no clinical significance. However, intubation using Trachlight is associated with fewer sore throat and traumatic events.
Although there were large variabilities, our data suggest that it will likely take longer to perform a laryngoscopic intubation in a large patient who has a thick neck, a small mouth opening, a small stiff jaw, or a restricted view of the pharyngeal structures (a higher classification according to Mallampatti et al. [2]). However, it is difficult to use any of these airway parameters to reliably predict difficult laryngoscopic intubation. Approximately 2.8% of patients (13) in the laryngoscope group required an alternative technique for intubation. The incidence of unexpected "difficult laryngoscopic intubation" in this study is similar to that reported from other studies. [4,5]However, the airway parameters among these 13 patients were indistinguishable from the remainder of the patients in the laryngoscope group. In other words, no airway parameter could reliably predict a patient with difficult laryngoscopic intubation in this study. Interestingly, in each of these patients the trachea was readily intubated by the Trachlight with one attempt with an average TTI of 13 s. Similarly, in the 5 patients in whom the trachea could not be intubated using the Trachlight, laryngoscopic intubation was successful with an average time of 11 s. The common features of these five patients were large tongue and long epiglottis. It is possible that these structures may obstruct the entrance of the tip of the endotracheal tube into the trachea. Several simple maneuvers are helpful in these cases. These include (1) a jaw lift; (2) use of the thumb of the non-dominant hand to lift the tongue; (3) hyperextension of the head and neck; and (4) having an assistant to pull the tongue forward.
There was no correlation between the airway parameters and the time required to intubate using the Trachlight. In other words, intubation using the Trachlight was not influenced by anatomic variability in this population. This is consistent with the results of Ainsworth and Howells's study, which demonstrated no apparent correlation between "difficult" laryngoscopic view and intubation success scores using a lighted stylet (Tubestat, Concept Corporation, Clearwater, FL). [6]Intuitively, it would be expected that a longer time would be required to intubate an obese patient with a thick neck because transillumination might be reduced. However, this problem may be overcome by using a brighter light source and dimming the ambient light when necessary.
Successful intubation with earlier versions of the lighted stylet required a darkened environment for optimal transillumination. Ainsworth and Howells commented that "satisfactory conditions are met only when a darkened environment can be obtained and that transillumination in daylight may not be a reliable indicator of successful intubation." [6]This can be inconvenient at times and may even make the lightwand device unreliable in the "field environment" or in an ambulance. In addition, a darkened environment can be dangerous for patients with a high risk of reflux because regurgitation may not be easily detected during intubation. The enhanced brightness of Trachlight has significantly improved the transillumination of soft tissues of the neck compared with the earlier versions of lightwands. In fact, our data have shown that nearly 88% of intubations using the Trachlight can be effectively performed under ambient light with or without shading of the neck.
Intubation using the Trachlight is a light-guided technique without visualization of the laryngeal structures. There is a potential risk of trauma to the upper airway associated with its use. However, intubation using the Trachlight is a gentle technique. The tip of the tube is withdrawn and redirected when resistance is felt during the placement of the endotracheal tube. If sore throat is used as an indicator of airway manipulation, our data suggest that Trachlight intubation is less traumatic than laryngoscopic intubation. If sore throat is a function of the presence of an endotracheal tube, one would expect no difference between the two groups. Furthermore, the atraumatic nature of the technique is demonstrated by the lower incidence of mucosal injury compared with laryngoscopy. Because of these potential benefits, intubation using the Trachlight may be advantageous in patients with fixed dental appliances.
Although intubation using the Trachlight has been shown to be safe, there are other risks. Stone and colleagues reported disconnection of the lightbulb from the lightwand (Flexilum, Concept Corporation) and migration into a major bronchus. [7]However, with improved technology, the light bulb of this newly designed lightwand is firmly attached to the wand, significantly reducing the risk of its disconnection. Although it is extremely rare, subluxation of the cricoarytenoid cartilage has also been reported in a study using an older version of a lighted stylet (Tubestat). [8]However, the retractable stylet may reduce the risk of traumatizing the arytenoid cartilage during Trachlight intubation. In testing the device, we have intubated the tracheas of more than 6,000 patients, and we have not encountered a single patient with symptoms and signs suggestive of cricoarytenoid subluxation.
In summary, we have demonstrated the Trachlight to be an effective and safe device when used by experienced personnel to intubate the tracheas of elective surgical patients. Effective use of the Trachlight to intubate the trachea requires adequate preparation of the patient (e.g., preoxygenation) and proper training as well as regular use of the Trachlight. Although we did not demonstrate any clinically important difference in the TTI between the study groups, intubation using the Trachlight had significantly fewer complications than laryngoscopy. In contrast to laryngoscopy, the ease of intubation with the Trachlight did not appear to be influenced by anatomic abnormalities of the upper airway. Trachlight intubation may be difficult in patients with large tongue and long epiglottis, a problem readily overcome by direct laryngoscopy.
Hung OR, Murphy M: Lightwands, lighted-stylet, and blind techniques of intubation. Anesthesiology Clinics of North America 13:477-489, 1995.
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Well, today was the big day that all of us with VMware NDAs plastered all over our cube walls have been waiting for: The official launch of VMware vSphere 4 (and the lifting of a heavy gag order).
There has been much going on today between the regular line up of expected blog posts and Twitter feeds going off faster than I can read. It all started off at about 11:30 pm Central Time last night when Twitter started going crazy and VMware's site was updated. The last 24 hours has seen lots of pent up writing and screenshots dumped all over the Internet by people who have spent a lot more time with vSphere betas than I have. Therefore, I will not only link to the best information, rather than recreate it, but I will rely heavily on linking to link compilations that other trusted bloggers have created.
Instead of the old three tier pricing of VI3, vSphere now has six price/feature tiers (two of which are targeted at the SMB market).
FT (Fault Tolerance) – Two VMs in lockstep, executing all the same instructions. One dies, the other takes over.
Storage VMotion – Now in the GUI.
Host Profiles – Create an ESX configuration standard and automatically configure new hosts and validate config of existing hosts.
VMware has done a pretty good job providing information to enable customers to upgrade. I will add that you should immediately go out to VMware's licensing portal and make sure you can log in. Then validate the data they have is accurate and complete, including SnS.
I'm sure there's more, so I may add to this list, but this will keep you busy for awhile!


Excelsior Mining Corp. (TSX: MIN) (FSE: 3XS) (OTCQX: EXMGF) ("Excelsior" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that following oversubscriptions, its non-brokered private placement announced on December 11, 2017 has been upsized, to raise a total of C$38,635,200 million (approximately US$30 million) through the issuance of 38,635,200 million common shares of Excelsior (the "Common Shares") at a price of C$1.00 per Common Share (the "Offering").
The net proceeds of the Offering will be used for the development, construction and maintenance of the Company's Gunnison Copper Project, including the acquisition of long lead items, and for working capital requirements.
The Offering is non-brokered; however, Clarksons Platou Securities AS and Tamesis Partners LLP have been engaged by Excelsior to act as finders in connection with the Offering and will be entitled to finder's fees. The Offering is subject to a number of conditions, including, without limitation, the execution of definitive documentation, receipt of all regulatory approvals, including the final approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Subject to these conditions precedent, the first tranche of the Offering is expected to close on or around December 21, 2017.
The Company also confirms that an affiliate of Greenstone Resources L.P. ("Greenstone") intends to acquire 16,467,200 Common Shares in the Offering for total gross proceeds of Cdn$16,467,200. Greenstone will close its portion of the Offering in a second tranche in accordance with the terms of its pre-emptive right. Greenstone currently holds 84,410,897 Common Shares (representing 50.36% of the Company's current issued and outstanding Common Shares). After the closing of the first and second tranche of the Offering, Greenstone will hold a total of 100,878,097 Common Shares, which will represent approximately 48.91% of Excelsior's issued and outstanding Common Shares (post-closing of the Offering).
Pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"), Greenstone's participation in the Offering constitutes a "related party transaction" as Greenstone is a related party of the Company. The Company is relying on an exemption from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 pursuant to exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 on the basis that at the time Greenstone's participation in the Offering was agreed to, neither the fair market value of the securities to be distributed in the Offering nor the consideration to be received for those securities, insofar as the Offering involved the related party, exceeds 25% of the Company's market capitalization. The Common Shares that will be acquired by Greenstone will be acquired pursuant to an exemption from the prospectus requirement in section 2.3 of National Instrument 45-106.
The securities being offered hereby have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This news release will not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor will there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Greenstone is a private equity fund specialising in the mining and metals sector. The Greenstone team has over 80 years of experience in the sector covering all aspects of mining project development. Further details on Greenstone can be found at www.greenstoneresources.com.
Greenstone is acquiring the securities in the offering described herein for investment purposes. Depending on market conditions and other factors, Greenstone may from time to time acquire and/or dispose of securities of Excelsior or continue to hold its current position.
A copy of the early warning report required to be filed with the applicable securities commission in connection with the transaction will be available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and can be obtained by contacting Matt Hornton and Gordon Purvis at +44 1481810100. Greenstone's address is set out below.
Excelsior Mining "The Copper Solution Company" is a mineral exploration and development company that is advancing the Gunnison Copper Project in Cochise County, Arizona.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" concerning anticipated developments and events that may occur in the future. Forward looking information contained in this news release includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to: (i) information pertaining to the terms of the Offering, (ii) the satisfaction of the conditions to the Offering, (iii) Greenstone's participation in the Offering, and (iv) the use of proceeds from the Offering.


While much of the nation will be tuning in for the final episode of something called 'I'm a Celebrity' Theresa May is gearing up for a Brexit showdown with Jeremy Corbyn.
But the real problem is that these two can't, it seems, decide on whether the BBC or ITV will do the best job of presenting it.
Well, I've got an idea, let May go on BBC and Corbyn on ITV so they can spout their stuff to their hearts' content, while the ratings plummet.
It will just be a boring Tory vs Labour bashing exercise anyway and watchers will still be – purposely – in the dark about May's atrocious deal.
Now, with four months to the day until we are due, under UK statute law, to leave the EU we still have the whole establishment ranged against Brexit at every level.
But one of the really big points missed in all of this is, if the UK does not leave the EU on the 29th March 2019 in the certain knowledge that it will definitely regain full and unfettered control over its laws, borders, policy making, defence and money, in short order, then not only will the voters have been denied but it would guarantee that the Brexit debate will continue to dog politics until we either hand over the country to the EU with no way back, or we regain control and diverge to make our own way in the world.
"The EU is now pressing Switzerland to sign a comprehensive "framework agreement" that would require Bern to cede even more sovereignty to Brussels. The EU, for instance, wants Switzerland to subject itself to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). If Switzerland complies with the demand, the ECJ would outrank the Swiss Supreme Court as the final arbiter of legal disputes in the country."
This is, as the piece says, just creeping EU accession. And that will be applied to the UK with the full compliance and connivance of our own establishment elite, unless we are completely free of it.
And while the PM goes on about how wonderful her Brexit In Name Only (BRINO) deal is, the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove and Falklands War veteran, Major General Julian Thompson, have warned in a letter that May's deal not only surrenders UK defence forces to EU control, it also compromises vital UK intelligence, which threatens Western security by risking the 'Five Eyes' alliance of the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.
"It puts at risk the fundamental Anglosphere alliances, specifically the vital Five Eyes Alliance and thereby threatens Western security." They write in the letter handed to the Sun.
"The 'deal' surrenders British national security by subordinating UK defence forces to Military EU control and compromising UK Intelligence capabilities.
Isn't it obvious that we must now leave on WTO terms to properly safeguard our sovereignty in all areas. And save some dosh too. Anything else is a Great Brexit Surrender!
Personally, I don't think that May's deal stands a chance of getting through Parliament. And without a massive change in the Commons via a leadership vote or a general election how can anything else but a WTO exit be on the cards?
And finally, an update on the post-Brexit UK/US open skies agreement that was being finalised yesterday. It's been agreed.
"This new arrangement and those concluded with eight other countries around the world are proof that the UK will continue to be a major player on the world stage after we leave the EU."
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System Builder Marathon Q1 2015: Budget Gaming PC
By Paul Henningsen 24 February 2015
Benchmark Performance
Page 1: Affordable Upgrades
Page 2: CPU, Cooler, Motherboard And Graphics
Page 3: Memory, Drives, Case and Power
Page 4: Assembly And Overclocking
Page 5: Test System Configuration And Benchmarks
Page 6: Benchmark Performance
Page 7: Power, Heat, Efficiency And Value
Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike appears to rank our trio of machines by cost, which of course directly relates to the level of graphics hardware we could afford. The Physics test is heavily-threaded, so Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology puts distance between the two Core i3–based machines and last quarter's conventional dual-core Pentium.
However, PCMark 8 paints a different picture. The cheap machine falls behind in stock form, but eventually rises to the top once its Pentium processor and Radeon R9 270X graphics card are overclocked. In the end, there is nothing profound to report; the scores pretty much fall within the benchmark's 3% margin of error.
Sandra highlights the differences between the Core i3 and Pentium processors. Higher frequency helps the overclocked Pentium earn a victory in Dhrystone Arithmetic, but it trails Core i3 in the Whetstone tests.
We also see features enabled in Intel's Core i3 (and up) processors like AES-NI and DDR3-1600 support translate to greater cryptographic and memory performance.
These gaming boxes start off CPU-limited at Arma 3's Standard quality preset. But rendering to three panels or tackling the Ultra setting shifts the bottleneck to graphics hardware.
Unlike Arma 3, our other titles favor the resources made available through Hyper-Threaded cores. What's perhaps even more interesting is how well our oldest machine's GeForce graphics card provides additional breathing room in benchmarks that otherwise appear CPU-bound.
Demanding ultra-quality settings invariably hammer graphics hardware, though. The machines all survive Battlefield 4 in Full HD, and GRID 2 through 4800x900. However, in Far Cry 3, this quarter's overclocked Radeon R9 280 is as low as you'll want to go before turning on 2x MSAA.
Non-Gaming Tasks
Relying on a pair of physical execution cores, none of these gaming boxes are built to be productivity workhorses. Because each one employs the Haswell architecture, completion times in single-threaded workloads like iTunes, LAME and Acrobat, rank according to clock rate. Meanwhile, the more parallel tasks highlight the effectiveness of Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, as well as overall platform performance.
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cmi86 24 February 2015 20:11
Over all I like it. I am glad to see that you went with the superior R9 280 over the thoroughly underwhelming GTX 960, which I thought you may have felt obligated to include in the budget build. Only minor gripe I have is that I am sure you could have saved five dollars somewhere to get that SSD in there, case maybe ?
TNT27 24 February 2015 20:12
ehh, id rather drop down to a regular 210 case, and get a better psu
damric 24 February 2015 21:57
Should have used Windows 10 Preview instead of paying $100 for OS. It's an obvious choice for a cheap build.
TechyInAZ 24 February 2015 22:46
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I disagree, eventually windows 10 preview will stop working when windows 10 is officially out. And for people viewing and building a duplicate rig off this post half to a year later, they would be out of luck.
Nice computer! I personally would have chosen a gigabyte mobo instead.
Onus 24 February 2015 22:59
I didn't like it. I can't help but think I'll get lots of downvotes, but it looks like a hodgepodge of throwaway parts. By that I mean every choice was an example of "settling" for less than what was probably wanted. On a tight budget, with limited or no future upgrade possibilities, maybe it is the best that can be done. Throw in some possible future upgrades though, and I would have made some sacrifices for the benefit of future growth. For example, I'd rather see a more competent mobo (e.g. to allow a data RAID1), PSU, and storage (i.e. including a SSD), and would have lowered the CPU and/or graphics card (depending on benchmarks) in order to get there. As good as most modern games look even on a mix of "high" and "medium" settings, this would create a system with much longer-lasting core components, and snappier "home-user" performance (because of the SSD). Future GPU and/or CPU upgrades in a year or so would keep the whole system humming right along.
envy14tpe 24 February 2015 23:32
This is the best Budget Gaming PC I've seen on this site. Love the choices. Did not skimp and no overkill on one component while weak other components. For a build under $600 you could not have done better. This will max out 1080p gaming!
MerryLane 25 February 2015 00:42
Why not buy an AIO cooler with these 100 dollars and overclock the hell out of the pentium?
After all the i3 has only two cores too ... and no overclocking possible.
I'm pretty sure that 50% overclocking is greater than 2 extra threads that give at best 30%.
There are also great bundles everywhere, G3258 + motherboard for cheaper.
The GTX 960 also seem more future proof than a 280 and barely more expansive.
Are you serious in saying that you belive a gtx 960 is more future proof? The r9 280 is on par or better than the 960, and its cheaper. When overclocked the 280 can reach into gtx 770 territory. Its also go a wider bus, and a extra gig of vram= much better performance in higher resolutions, and newer games that are starting to use that gig of vram.
dstarr3 25 February 2015 01:53
I've built with that case before, and it is really surprisingly good for it's cost. But I got it for $35 at my local computer parts store. Regular price. If you're paying $50 for it, you're mad.
turkey3_scratch 25 February 2015 02:00
I don't see why SSDs are being considered a necessity. With Windows 8 and the fast startup you don't even need to worry about waiting a minute, and on a budget I don't see why it's worth the extra money just to calm one's impatience for 10 seconds of loading.
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Is there a step by step settlement tutorial somewhere for players who want to look in to creating a settlement? I have not been able to find one.
Re: Is there a settlement tutorial?
All found searching for the word 'Settlement' on the CE Guides Site.
or a short answer: yes.


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When Women Thrive in Cybersecurity Careers, Companies Win
Home » Digital Security » When Women Thrive in Cybersecurity Careers, Companies Win
The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study: Women in Cybersecurity revealed some hard truths. Women make up only 11 percent of the cybersecurity workforce, and in 2016, women in cybersecurity careers earned less than men at every level.
The report also found that when women feel valued in the workplace tend to have benefitted from leadership development programs.
"When women feel valued, they are more successful," says Joyce Brocaglia, CEO with Alta Associates and Founder of The Executive Women's Forum (EWF) on Information Security, Risk Management & Privacy. That success comes when women are provided with a culture that's based on trust and interactive and when they are mentored.
Women add diversity
It takes diversity to solve complex problems, and there may be nothing more complex than the problems faced by cybersecurity and IT professionals. Hackers are a diverse entity, and a diverse workforce is necessary to thwart their attacks. Bringing more women into cybersecurity can offer new ways of looking at attacks and approaches to mitigate them.
The biggest roadblock women in cybersecurity face is the gender bias, and it is at virtually every level. Artificial intelligence, for example, is designed with a gender bias in the data set and that skews the results. Cybersecurity legislation is often crafted with a similar gender bias.
"One of the greatest achievements of the EWF is creating a symposium for women in cybersecurity on Capitol Hill," says Brocaglia. "Over the past two years, the symposium has brought 250 women in for bipartisan sessions, and that has resulted in using the EWF as a conduit for increasing women's participation in cybersecurity legislation."
More than coding
What's exciting about a career in cybersecurity is the number of opportunities available. There are high-tech options, but professionals are needed in training and awareness, in marketing and dealing with big picture strategies. Every industry, every level of government, and even our personal lives are at a point where cybersecurity is a requirement.
When people think of cybersecurity, they think of it only in terms of stopping hackers, explains Brocaglia, but that's just one area. "Everyone I know in cybersecurity is incredibly passionate so there are plenty of places to find a passion," she adds.
Advice for newcomers
If you are considering a career in cybersecurity, Brocaglia has three points of advice.
First, have confidence in yourself and your ability and step into your power as early as you can to express that confidence. Second, seek out mentors and sponsors. "Sponsors are the men and women in your own organization who can help you and spend their own political capital to help your career," she says.
Finally, be active in professional organizations where you'll interact with a diverse group of executives who will recognize talent and give you projects and give you opportunities you may not otherwise have.
"It's never too early to think of yourself as a leader," Brocaglia advises. "Think of yourself as a leader and a mentor and mentor others as early as possible because by teaching you learn yourself."
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In the play Waiting for Godot written and translated by Samuel Beckett, readers follow along as characters, Didi, and Gogo, are seen waiting for someone by the name Godot, in which they never show, and time is very rarely mentioned in the play, besides thru very few encounters with Pozzo, and Lucky, and the mention of night and day. As the play progresses Didi and Gogo start to lose faith in what they're waiting for, and as Pozzo and Lucky grow old, they achieve less, and become more useless. Therefore in the play, Beckett uses the progression and development of Pozzo and lucky's relationship as well as themselves in order to portray the lack of faith in humanity, and the lack of purpose for life.
Shortly after the beginning of Act 1, Didi and Gogo encounter Pozzo and Lucky for the first time. After a brief introduction Pozzo asks Didi and Gogo if they would like to see Lucky either dance or think. At first they are not sure if he actually knows how to do either, because all they see is the enslaved, depressed side of him with little to no knowledge. Readers as well perceive lucky as unable to do anything, however, Pozzo goes on to tell of what lucky used to do. "Vladimir. He thinks?/Pozzo. Certainly. Aloud. He even used to think very prettily once, I could listen to him for hours. Now… (he shudders). So much the worse for me" (Beckett 26). "Pozzo. He used to dance the farandole, the fling, the brawl, the jig, the fandango, and even the hornpipe. He capered. For Joy, now that's the best he can do" (Beckett 27). In both sentences Beckett uses the word "used" which serves the purpose to signify an event that occurred in the past. Lucky was able to Dance and Think greatly, however over time he has lost these skills as time has taken its toll on him. Beckett shows a larger implication that not only does time impact a person, but also causes humanity, in general to slow down, and become less involved, and that humanity loses the ability to achieve, and becomes more as a routine for most. When Pozzo says "now thats the best he can do" (Beckett 27), Beckett is speaking about the will power that humanity loses. They become less likely to try, and are more satisfied with the outcome that takes little effort. Humanity has become lazy, and lose the importance of life, and just live to allow time to pass.


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Coffee Talk: Tamar Braxton and K. Michelle End Their Feud
Plus: Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall will return to "The Game," Zendaya has the last laugh with hair critics, Tyler Perry arrives at Bobbi Kristina's bedside and more!
By Taylor Lewis	· Updated October 27, 2020
Tamar Braxton and K. Michelle End Their Feud at BET Awards
And all is well in Tinseltown. Tamar Braxton and K. Michelle squashed their beef once and for all at last night's BET Awards. The two have been feuding since 2013 when Tamar accused K. of stealing her wig (and the feud heated up earlier this year when K. said that Tamar looked like a "muppet"). But last night, the two came together to perform a rendition of Patti LaBelle's "If Only You Knew." We love a happy ending! [Rap-Up]
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Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall Will Return to 'The Game' For Series Finale
Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall are coming back to The Game! Pooch announced during yesterday's BET Awards that Melanie and Derwin would be making a comeback for the August series finale. "It's official: Ya boy is back," Hall said. "But yo, it's not just me; Melanie is also back on The Game for the finale." We know what we'll be doing on August 5. [Madame Noire]
Tyler Perry Visits Bobbi Kristina
Tyler Perry spent a long afternoon with Bobbi Kristina Brown, who remains in a Georgia hospice facility. The filmmaker, who has been a long-time family friend, was seen entering the facility, where he stayed for several hours. Brown and Houston family members made the decision last week to admit Bobbi Kristina into a hospice facility five months after she was found facedown in a Georgia bathtub. We continue to send prayers her way. [ET]
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Zendaya Blasts Hair Critics on Twitter
Zendaya's hair has made headlines (again). Apparently, some people weren't feeling her uber-chic pixie 'do at yesterday's BET Awards. But the 18-year-old star could care less. "When people don't like your hair, but they tweeting' bout you tho…… #idgaf" the teen tweeted along with a couple of silly selfless. We'd have to say that Zendaya won this round. [Just Jared]
DMX Arrested Over Unpaid Child Support
DMX was taken into custody on Friday night over unpaid child support—he owes more than $400,000—bail jumping and aggravated unlicensed motor vehicle operator. He was arrested just hours before he was scheduled to perform at Radio City Music Hall. [People]


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OBJECTHOOD — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
3D Print Model
Elements of Urban Design
by Liang Wang (MAUD '17) and Lu Zhang (MAUD '17) — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
"The contrast between particular and universal, between individual and collective, emerges from the city and form its construction, its architecture. This contrast is one of the principal viewpoints from which the city will be studied. It manifests itself in different ways: in the relationship between the public and private sphere, between public and private buildings,between the rational design of urban architecture and the values of locus or place." — Aldo Rossi
This project explores a new urban housing model that hybridizes the collective urban grid and the individual urban objects, from which the domesticity and life styles emerge to inform new urban ramifications at different scales. The urban objects here could be deciphered at two scales: one as urban fragments that mediate spatial and programmatic relationships with the city, one being the aggregation as a whole constructed at a larger scale, in which way we call it objecthood.
The project starts with the observation of contemporary New York housing fabrics, where exists a clear division between typical Manhattan grid and the Towers in Park typology. These two dominant types form the urbanism across Manhattan and beyond, each presenting unique spatial organization and life style embedded within. Based on this observation, the design proposal examines a hypothesis of combining those two urbanism: the normal grid and the abnormal objects, as a basic urban housing model to construct the city. Therefore, instead of using the existing Manhattan grid structure, a new grid module extracted from the basic Manhattan plot of 25ft is introduced to reconfigure – the courtyard system with generic dimension of 50ft by 50ft. It is the generic urban container of housing and infrastructure, which at the same time responds to the specific site constraints of FDR and the urban edge. The second system of series of objects introduced into the site holds public amenities and various housing types. The place where grid reconciles with the objects gives the public amenities shape and generates another layer of public space, being the recreational programs connected by a loop and landscape that ties the project to the city at a larger scale.
The emergence of universal urban grid and particular urban objects not only addresses the concern of urban multiplicity, more significantly, it informs a new urban housing typology at both programmatic and social levels. The spatial arrangements makes possible the coexistence of diverse living styles for multi-families, and its programmatic amenities embody the vision of a new social order which emerges as framework of the living community.
As a vision, this project is conceived at the scale of both a super block and a single bock, and the strength of the project resides in the duality to accommodate a variety of the scales and life styles from superblock to block and from city to buildings. As an urban experiment, this project serves as both an urbanistic housing strategy and a social framework. It could be re-adapted into different urban contexts with various parameters accordingly, thus to respond to the dynamics of our city today at large.
Sectional Model
Ground Plan
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Алаколь () — озеро в Алтынсаринском районе Костанайской области Казахстана. Находится в 18 км к востоку от села Новоалексеевка.

По данным топографической съёмки 1944 года, площадь поверхности озера составляет 1,63 км². Наибольшая длина озера — 2,1 км, наибольшая ширина — 1,3 км. Длина береговой линии составляет 5,6 км, развитие береговой линии — 1,23. Озеро расположено на высоте 102,1 м над уровнем моря.

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Озёра Алтынсаринского района


WASHINGTON -- The Army's most important weapons system is the Soldier. To overmatch the enemy in multi-domain operations, Soldiers must demonstrate physical fitness levels required for combat.
The Army Combat Fitness Test ensures that Soldiers are physically conditioned for that fight. The ACFT will improve lethality, transform the Army's physical fitness culture, reduce preventable injuries and associated attrition, and enhance Soldier mental toughness and stamina.
"At the end of the day we need Soldiers who are deployable, lethal and ready," said Secretary of the Army Mark Esper during a Defense Writers Group breakfast in August.
The age- and gender-neutral ACFT is part of the Army's evolving Holistic Health and Fitness System to generate lethal Soldiers who are physically ready and mentally tough.
The ACFT and how it nests into the Army's Holistic Health and Fitness initiative, or H2F, is the focus of a Warriors' Corner during the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The "Role of ACFT in the Holistic Health and Fitness System" takes place Monday, Oct. 8, 3:05-3:45 p.m. Eastern time, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
"The ACFT will ignite a professional cultural change in Army fitness and become a cornerstone of individual Soldier combat readiness," said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Center for Initial Military Training, or CIMT.
Frost will present at the ACFT Warriors Corner, with CIMT's research physiologist Whitfield "Chip" East on hand as a subject matter expert. (CIMT is the Army's H2F proponent.) Frost will outline the road to the ACFT, how the ACFT nests into H2F, how physical fitness is a readiness enabler, and the fielding of an updated Physical Readiness Training field manual that will be renamed Holistic Health and Fitness (FM 7-22).
The ACFT role in H2F will also be the subject of TRADOC's Army Exhibit kiosk during the AUSA meeting Oct. 8-10. Subject matter experts will be on hand and attendees can use ACFT equipment to test their abilities on several of the ACFT events.
The Army announced in July that the ACFT will become the physical fitness test of record no later than October 2020. The test complies with the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act without differential standards or evaluation by gender.
Direct work on the ACFT started in 2013 with an empirical study of high physical demands for common Soldier tasks. Extensive scientific research by U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and CIMT validated specific physical fitness test events that measure all components of fitness relating to combat physical requirements. Those components are muscular strength, muscular endurance, power, speed, aerobic endurance, agility, balance, flexibility, coordination and reaction time.
Pilot testing took place 2017-2018, when the test was originally known as the Army Combat Readiness Test. The Army used the pilots to validate the order and direction for the individual events to ensure the ACFT can be used Army-wide.
The ACFT events include: 3-repetition strength deadlift; standing power throw; hand release push-up; 250-meter sprint, drag, carry; leg tuck; and 2-mile run.
ACFT implementation begins Oct. 1 with Army-wide field tests. Within the next year, approximately 60 battalion-sized units representing Active, Reserve and National Guard will take a not-for-record ACFT. Mobile training teams will conduct site visits and provide ACFT training to master fitness trainers at each participating unit.
During field testing, the Army will collect feedback from the field, procure and field ACFT equipment, and validate test administration instructions, minimum time standards and current scoring. The data will support future policy-related decisions such as potential alternate events for Soldiers with physical profiles.
The Army will also determine whether to administer the test based on unit occupational physical demands or by a Soldier's military occupational specialty. Approximately half of the units participating in the field test will use unit-type scoring and the other half will use MOS scores.
Scoring is based on three levels: Black (heavy MOS physical demands, such as Infantry and Armor), Grey (significant MOS physical demands, such as military police and combat medics) and Gold (moderate MOS physical demands such as logistical specialists and fire control repairers).
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley did not mince words regarding the ACFT's level of difficulty at the National Guard 140th General Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans last month, urging Soldiers to start preparing.
"Do. Not. Wait. This test is hard," Milley said.
The Army recently released an ACFT field testing manual and ACFT training guide with exercises from FM 7-22 to help Soldiers successfully prepare for the test anytime, anywhere. Soldiers should already be training in the FM 7-22 strength and conditioning requirements, East said.
"The test measures all components of fitness and the best way to do well on the test is to train and prepare all of your body's energy and performance systems," East added. "That means not only working right, but eating right, resting right and being mentally prepared."


German chocolate company Super Dickmann is being accused of racism after releasing an ad tied to the royal wedding showing a chocolate-covered marshmallow in a wedding dress. The caption to the ad reads: "What are you looking at? Wouldn't you also want to be Meghan today?" the BBC reports.
The ad was posted on Facebook on Saturday, the day of Meghan Markle's wedding to Prince Harry. The image depicted a cartoon Schokokuss, a well-known German sweet, dressed in a white dress. The words written above the marshmallow translate to "a foam in white" -- a reference to its creamy interior and a pun on the phrase "a vision in white," according to the BBC.
Some criticized the image as "racist" and many took to social media to express their outrage. "Saw Dickmann's commercial and want to set something on fire," one commenter wrote, according to the Daily Mail.
The company responded to the criticism on Facebook, writing "A big pardon! The world of Super Dickmann's is colourful and diverse and far from racist thoughts." A spokesperson for the company called the post "stupid and embarrassing," the BBC reports.
Super Dickmann spokesman Bernd Roessler said the company had not put enough thought into the post, which it has deleted from its Facebook page.
But some people did not think the apology was enough. One wrote, "Pathetic campaign, pathetic response. I hope there will be financial consequences for you," the Daily Mail reports.
Markle, now known as Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex, made history as an American and biracial woman when she joined the royal family on Saturday.
Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, is African-American, and aspects of the wedding ceremony reflected and celebrated that heritage. The first African-American head of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., Bishop Michael Bruce Curry, delivered an inspiring, emotional sermon. And the renowned gospel singer Karen Gibson led the Kingdom Choir in a soulful rendition of "Stand By Me."
Markle, who grew up in Los Angeles during a racially-charged period amid the riots after the Rodney King verdict, has spoken about being exposed to racism up close. "You know, a couple years ago I heard someone call my mom the N-word," Markle said in a 2012 PSA for Characters Unite, a USA Network campaign against discrimination.
"I'm biracial … Some of the slurs I've heard or really offensive jokes or names just hit me in a really strong way. ... I'm proud of both sides," Markle continued.
To many people, she is an inspiration.
"Now we see that a real-life black princess can actually be in the British royal family. So it shows young black girls … that like this can actually be a reality, not just a fantasy, like in story books," 16-year-old Tyler Newman told CBS News' Michelle Miller. "She's not just representing herself, but she's representing all of black women and what we have to bring."


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Kuku Mey Mey is an Indian flash-animated slapstick comedy television series produced by HopMotion Animation. It premiered on Toon Goggles and Amazon Prime Video simultaneously under the title Kuku and the Goat.

Synopsis
Mey Mey lives in an inn in a jungle. Kuku, tries to break into the inn but Mey Mey has set up traps to dissuade Kuku.

Characters
Kuku: Kuku always tries to get into Mey Mey's inn. Despite being a lion, he is not violent.
Mey Mey: Mey Mey is a goat who lives an inn in a forest. When Kuku tries to get in, he sets up traps.

Reception
It was nominated for FICCI's Best Animated Frames award in the Episode (Indian) category.

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Indian flash animated television series
Indian children's animated comedy television series
Animated television series about lions
Fiction about goats
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Pet Shop Boys performed "Always On My Mind" for the UK TV show, Love Me Tender. This was the original video before the official EMI version. Enjoy. By the way, I restored the audio to this video – the original source is from another YouTube user who extracted this video from an old tape.
Zakon še vedno, zgodovina so!
Pet Shop Boys and LeatherMen imagery? What could be more perfect?
Oh, yes – doing a superb version of Elvis Presley's "Always on my mind" and not only re-inventing it, but also creating a definitve 1980's pop classic in the same stroke! Stunning!
I never saw THIS TV video version of the song at the time – I wished I'd had!
They were so popular that they weren't considered as being "gay" when they "came out" in the mid 1980's. This video might've changed people's minds!
I found the Pet Shop Boys influential because of their use of lyrics (C'mon – "West End Girls", in 1986, was stunning!) AND their way of being uncompromising when they made their performances – they shifted the focus onto the song rather than how they'd looked of if they danced or not. They were/are also quintessentially British and unapologetically so, which I think only increased their iconic status as the years went by. This rare video brings back to us the memory of them, pushing boundaries, even back in 1987.
Très bon souvenir de radio..
The best electronic music ever to me more than anyone!
Le quedó mejor que a Elvis.


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Benoît Poelvoorde (* 22. September 1964 in Namur) ist ein belgischer Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor, Filmregisseur und -produzent.

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Benoît Poelvoorde begeisterte sich bereits mit 17 Jahren für das Theater, aber auch für Zeichnen und Fotografie. So studierte er an der École de Recherche Graphique des Brüsseler Institut Saint-Luc. 1992 hatte er mit der Filmsatire Mann beißt Hund (C'est arrivé près de chez vous) seinen Durchbruch als Regisseur und Darsteller. Dieser Low-Budget-Film wurde zu einem Publikumserfolg und gilt mittlerweile als Kultfilm. Es folgten in den Jahren 1997 bis 2002 eine Reihe weiterer Filme. 2002 wurde Poelvoorde mit dem Jean-Gabin-Preis ausgezeichnet. 2004 war er auf Vorschlag von Quentin Tarantino Mitglied der Jury des Filmfestspiele von Cannes. In dem Film Coco Chanel – Der Beginn einer Leidenschaft von 2009 spielte er mit Étienne Balsan einen Geliebten von Coco Chanel (gespielt von Audrey Tautou).

Poelvoorde wurde mehrmals für den belgischen Filmpreis Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller nominiert: Die anonymen Romantiker (nominiert 2012), Der Tag wird kommen (nominiert 2013), Une place sur la Terre (gewonnen 2014), Les Rayures du zèbre (nominiert 2015) und Die Wache (nominiert 2019).

Filmografie (Auswahl)

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 1992: Prix SACD für den besten Spielfilm, Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes, für Mann beißt Hund
 1992: Metro Media Award, Toronto International Film Festival, für Mann beißt Hund
 1992: Bester Film und Bester Schauspieler, Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, für Mann beißt Hund
 1993: Nominierung für den Europäischen Filmpreis als bester Newcomer-Film, für Mann beißt Hund
 1993: Preis des Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et des Films de Télévision, Bester ausländischer Film, für Mann beißt Hund
 1999: Silver Hugo als bester Darsteller, Chicago International Film Festival, für Rekordjäger
 2001: Preis für das beste Drehbuch, Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián, für Das Rennrad
 2002: Prix Jean Gabin
 2005: César-Nominierung als bester Hauptdarsteller, für Podium
 2005: Joseph-Plateau-Award, Bester belgischer Schauspieler, für Podium und Aaltra
 2006: César-Nominierung als bester Hauptdarsteller, für Entre ses mains
 2006: Nominierung Globe de Cristal als bester Darsteller, für Entre ses mains
 2010: César-Nominierung als bester Nebendarsteller, für Coco Chanel – Der Beginn einer Leidenschaft
 2012: Nominierung Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller für Die anonymen Romantiker
 2013: Nominierung Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller für Der Tag wird kommen
 2014: Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller für Une place sur la Terre
 2015: Nominierung Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller für Les Rayures du zèbre
 2015: Nominierung für den Prix Lumières als bester Darsteller, für 3 Herzen
 2019: Mérite wallon für Verdienste um die wallonische Region
 2019: Nominierung Magritte als Bester Hauptdarsteller für Die Wache

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Geboren 1964
Person (Namur)
Person (Amsterdam)


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Everything you need to know about Ranveer Singh's new record label, IncInk
By GQ Staff 30 March 2019
Including the label's brand new video
Last month, for our cover story, Ranveer Singh told us what hip-hop meant to him, how it all started and spoke of his favourite artists (Tupac, Coolio, Will Smith, Blackstreet and more). But in the run up to the release of Gully Boy, he revealed that he was listening to "only Mumbai underground hip-hop." In particular, "these two kids, who are also on the Gully Boy soundtrack: A 19-year-old called Spitfire (Nitin Mishra) from Madhya Pradesh, who wrote "Asli Hip Hop"; and a Kandivali boy with the moniker Kaam Bhaari. I just can't get enough of their unreleased music."
Fast-forward to now; more than a month after the release of Gully Boy, Singh has announced the launch of his independent record label named IncInk - in partnership with filmmaker Navzar Eranee. And the first three artists on board include (not-surprisingly) Spitfire, Kaam Bhaari and Slow Cheeta (also featured in Gully Boy).
Talking about the new venture at a press conference, Singh shared more details: "For me this is about giving back. Being an outsider I have always wanted to support new talent, outstanding talent that deserves to be heard and deserves to be seen. This is about so many talented kids who just need a platform."
Within 24 hours, the official handle of IncInk @incinkrecords has amassed 10.5k followers on Instagram. And to be discovered as an artist, all you have to do is reach out to them via their social media handles. Meanwhile, check out their first music video - Zeher by Kaam Bhaari - featuring a special cameo by Singh:
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Home News Commemorative Banknotes Celebrate 75th Anniversary of Lasi-Chisinau Operation
Commemorative Banknotes Celebrate 75th Anniversary of Lasi-Chisinau Operation
27 Aug 2019 Tue
The Transnistrian Republican Bank started circulating 1 ruble commemorative banknotes to celebrate "75 years of the Iasi-Chisinau operation" from 20th August. The banknote format and designs are similar to 1 ruble notes that were released in 2012. An additional inscription on the commemorative note reads "75 YEARS OF THE YASSK-CHISINAU OPERATION 1944-2019". Extra elements like a memorial stele, a laurel branch and a St. George ribbon have also been included.
1,500 pieces of such notes have been released. Special booklets have been designed to hold each note. These notes have been released as legal tender within the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
The Jassy–Kishinev Operation or Iasi-Chisinau operation took place during World War II in Eastern Romania from 20th to 29th August 1944. It was initiated by the Soviet forces to free Moldavian SSR from the Axis forces that had occupied the region. 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts of the Soviet Army took assistance from German and Romanian soldiers from Army Group South Ukraine in this operation. With the help of this operation, the Soviet Army also got access to Romania and the Balkans.
Image Courtesy: Transnistrian Republican Bank
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HomeNewsBus NewsOperators told to take immediate action when called to PI
Operators told to take immediate action when called to PI
04/07/2017 Aaron Hilson Bus News, Licences, News, NP News
The Senior Traffic Commissioner (STC), Richard Turfitt, has warned operators facing a Public Inquiry (PI) to take robust and immediate action over safety concerns or risk losing their O-licence.
Mr Turfitt's intervention came after he revoked a Fenland-based tipper operator's licence because shortcomings were not rectified and a subsequent audit also identified ongoing issues.
Malcolm Mandley, trading as Mandley Bros, did not produce up-to-date preventative maintenance inspection sheets at a Cambridge PI, while earlier safety records suggested there had been a failure in driver defect reporting. Mr Mandley also didn't introduce dynamic brake tests, despite DVSA advice.
Mr Turfitt, in his role as Traffic Commissioner for the East of England, made an order to revoke Mr Mandley's licence at 2359hrs on July 31 and disqualified him from acting as a transport manager for one year, ruling that he must take and pass the CPC examination.
The STC remarked: "Operators should be aware of how commissioners decide what action to take at PI. The STC's publicly available statutory guidance explains that TCs have to be proportionate and make findings on the day of the PI. This takes into account any improvements made prior to the hearing.
"But in some cases the present is simply the culmination of past events. There are instances where revocation is justified even at the first PI because the operator has already had the chance to put things right by the date of the hearing but failed to do so.
"It is really important for operators to be proactive at all times when it comes to their vehicle and driver safety regimes, but especially so where they have been put on notice – whether by the maintenance contractor, an auditor or DVSA – of failures or shortcomings. These must be addressed immediately and documented.
"Operators should be attending a PI with evidence of what they have done to rectify the issues and be able to show improvements in the compliance regime, if they don't want to face the possibility of losing their licence."
Licence holders who are called to a PI are required to bring a number of documents to the hearing, notice of which is given at least five weeks beforehand. This includes:
Evidence of financial standing for the vehicles authorised on the licence;
PMIs and driver defect reports covering a three month period; and
Evidence of systems for ensuring compliance with drivers' hours and tachograph legislation.
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The World Bank (WB) estimates the strength of the Mexican economic recovery will allow a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.3% in 2015; the forecast is within the range estimated by the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, between 3.2 to 4.2 percent.
In the full annual document, Global Economic Prospects, the World Bank economists explain that implementation of the reforms will facilitate further growth of five tenths of a point to GDP for the next two years. This would lead to annual growth of 3.8% in 2016 and in the same proportion for 2017.
They advise that the implementation of the reforms could lead to the attraction of investors and mitigate the impact expected by the reversal of monetary policies in advanced economies.
They estimate that capital flows to emerging economies in 2015 will be approximately 5.5 percent of GDP, implying a slowdown from the estimated record for the previous year of 5.8 percent of GDP.
Banco BASE finds it difficult for the Mexican economy to grow above 3% in 2015. Due to the many reasons it entails at international level, the estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will range between 1.8 and 2.3%.
Gabriela Siller, the director of Economic Analysis Banco BASE, explained that the main determinants of the projection are the low price of oil, which definitely will affect public finances; the high volatility in the exchange rate, which reflects on consumer confidence and investment decisions, and the imminent tax increase of the Federal Reserve.


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Anarchy Erupts In State Senate
by Breck Dumas January 6, 2021, 3:08 pm 714 Views
Republicans in Pennsylvania's GOP-controlled state Senate refused to seat a Democratic senator-elect on Tuesday and even moved to have the Democratic lieutenant governor booted from the chamber in a scene local outlet KDKA-TV described as "chaos."
What are the details?
Democrat Jim Brewster has been certified by the state as the winner of a narrow Senate race against Republican candidate Nicole Ziccarelli. But when it was time for Brewster to be sworn in along with other incoming senators in the state, Republicans intervened and refused to allow him to take the oath of office.
At the time, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) was presiding over the chamber and protested against the GOP's move while continuing to try to move forward with Brewster's swearing in. Republicans reacted by passing a motion to remove Fetterman from the chair, but when the lieutenant governor refused to leave, Republicans simply spoke over him and took over leadership from another part of the chamber.
KDKA reported that eventually Brewster withdrew.
"I wanted the rest of the senators with their families there, and in some cases their children there, to be sworn in," the Democrat told the outlet.
"I was disappointed and flabbergasted that they removed the lieutenant governor," Brewster said. "I think that is a move that went too far."
Fox News reported:
Reflecting a nationwide trend, Republicans in the state sought to invalidate ballots that omitted a handwritten date. Brewster's Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli lost by 69 votes in state-certified results. Zicarelli has argued that without 311 contested mail-in ballots, she would win by 24 votes.
Law & Crime pointed out that "the Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously rejected Ziccarelli's attempts to contest the election results."
Ziccarelli, meanwhile, insists she has won the race "after all legally cast ballots have been counted."
Author: Breck Dumas
Source: The Blaze: 'Chaos' in Pennsylvania state Senate as GOP refuses to seat Dem declared winner in contested race
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Germany Prepares to Nationalize Condor Airlines
The German government is reportedly preparing to take over Frankfurt-based Condor Airlines, since a previous plan for Polish Aviation Group (PGL)—parent company of LOT Polish Airlines—to purchase the carrier appears likely to fall through.
Condor was formerly part of the Thomas Cook Group, prior to that company's collapse in September 2019, and was rescued at that time by a €380 million (USD $415 million) state bridging loan.
In January 2020, LOT agreed to buy Condor for about €300 million (USD $328 million), combining the leading carriers to create a European aviation group capable of flying over 20 million passengers per year.
However, the unanticipated, unprecedented effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the global aviation industry may make the planned takeover impossible. Inside sources told Reuters that PGL has made the completion of this transaction contingent upon certain guarantees to which the German government will not agree.
With most fleets grounded, yoked by strict travel restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus' spread, and consumer fears fueling a steep decline in demand, airlines around the world are struggling to stay afloat unless they receive financial aid from their respective governments.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) lately released a report, which estimates that airlines will lose $252 billion in overall revenue this year as a result of the global health crisis. IATA Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac posited that most air carriers will soon go bankrupt without swift government bailouts and has urged the provision of state-funded assistance to prevent the total collapse of the air travel industry.
Just last week, Condor reportedly applied for an extra €200 million (USD $220 million) in state aid in order to maintain operations. At present, no final determination has been reached regarding the imperiled carrier's immediate future, although sources said that the government's decision could come sometime this week.
Should Germany end up nationalizing Condor, sources said that its ownership of the airline would only last for a limited time and that Germany would want to restart the sales process as soon as the travel industry rebounds from the coronavirus crisis.
For more information, visit condor.com.
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Dancing with Judith
Meghana Tummala and Elijah Shore
On March 8, during lunchtime at Community High School not everyone was eating, instead, they were dancing. Students and teachers alike piled into the first-floor dance body room as they learned how to jitterbug from senior teacher and Dancer-in-chief, Judith DeWoskin. Most of DeWoskin's pupils were unsuccessful at the jitterbug but their efforts were admirable nevertheless. It's an annual tradition that Depression Awareness Group (DAG) puts together during the month of March along with other wellness breaks.
DAG, led by teacher and wellness enthusiast Robbie Stapleton, has a mission to make Community High School mentally healthier. Stapleton knows that something as small as dancing during lunch can have a positive impact.
"Our bodies are meant to move," Stapleton said, "the biochemical stuff that's going on when you're moving, is [that] you're eliminating and getting rid of [a] stress hormone called cortisol… You're having fun. You're laughing. You're with friends. We know for a fact that all of that affects our well being and how we feel about ourselves in our world. So what could be better than dancing during lunch?"
Phoebe Bolz (on the right) and Isabel Espinosa (on the left), partner up to dance the jitterbug.
Like Stapleton, DeWoskin also thinks that dancing is healthy for the body, but in the end, it's something she finds fun.
"I absolutely love to dance and have always loved to dance," DeWoskin said. "I just feel better all over because I think dancing is the most amazing exercise anybody can ever get."
However, DeWoskin and Stapleton aren't the only ones to find dancing fun.
"It was super fun to come and see Judith dance and dance with her," Emily Lancaster said, a senior at Community.
Being a dancer herself, Lancaster finds dancing and moving in general, to make her and others happier. Along with Lancaster, Julia Ammer enjoyed this little break in the middle of the regular school day.
"It also clears your mind to kind of focus on something else," Ammer said. "Focus on trying to get some dance steps instead of thinking about the test you have next block."
This wellness break was not only a way to relieve some stress but also a fun way to spend time with your friends and teachers at Community.
If you happened to miss this dance party and are looking to unload, luckily this isn't the only mental wellness break in March. The next break will be yoga in the dance studio on March 22 and will be open to everyone.
Keep an eye out for the other wellness breaks approaching in the coming weeks in the forum bulletin or ask someone in DAG, they wear yellow shirts on Fridays.
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Potential Croydonian customers are all on Instagram, why aren't you?
Recently, I wrote about how setting up Croydon's first fashion label (Croydon Vs The World) led me to discover the joys of the photo-based social network Instagram.
The night began badly but got better. The first bit wasn't the performers' fault.
With the focus on what's happening in the middle of Croydon, it's easy to forget about the various neighbourhoods that make up the borough. Many of us are only vaguely aware of venues and events other than those in our own particular environs.
The decision to place Boxpark 2.0 in Croydon was met with celebration, controversy and criticism. Some were excited and positive. Others were more wary.